The Nap-Away Motel
- Publisher
- Palimpsest Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2019
- Category
- Transgender, Coming of Age, Literary
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781989287170
- Publish Date
- May 2019
- List Price
- $18.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781989287187
- Publish Date
- May 2019
- List Price
- $9.99
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Description
In the heart of Scarborough sits the Nap-Away Motel, a hunched building providing hidden worlds for its occupants. Within its derelict walls, Suleiman longs to rebuild his broken family, Tiffany creates a fantasy world to escape from her mother’s neglect and Ori plans a search for their run-away twin brother. While they grapple with the challenges of mental health, addiction, and grief, the three dwellers manage to forge a friendship over a litter of stray kittens. Together, they find joy in ruin, and hope when everything seems lost.
About the author
Nadja is a writer and a veterinarian. Her work has been published in Understorey, Room, Canthius, and The Dalhousie Review. The Nap-Away Motel is her first novel. She lives in Toronto with her wife and their two daughters.