Threshold

Carol Bruneau

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Threshold

Stories

  Author:   Carol Bruneau    
  Publisher:  Nimbus Publishing Limited

Contemporary short story collection exploring privilege, perspective, and contradiction from the celebrated author of Brighten the Corner Where You Are and A Bird on Every Tree.

“Bruneau is a master. We should know this by now.”
—Quill & Quire, starred review of A Bird on Every Tree

From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Brighten the Corner Where You Are, A Circle on the Surface, and Purple for Sky comes the first collection of short stories since the Thomas Raddall Award—nominated A Bird on Every Tree.

Moving from a worldly insouciance to a reckoning with privilege, the stories in Threshold explore the hypocrisies and contradictions of a world broken by racism, homelessness, and climate change. A woman’s grief causes her to see the ghost of her mother in others and in herself; an extended honeymoon cruise has a couple contemplating their gene pools, and their future; and a son’s disappearance prompts his parents to study the migratory patterns of herons.

From the piazzas of Naples and Palermo to Halifax’s urban wilderness, waterways, and backyards, Bruneau writes with characteristic empathy, humour, and linguistic precision. These luminescent stories reach beyond first-world worries toward compassion and hope, human resilience and the resiliency of nature.
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Details and Specs
ISBN associated with this title: 9781774712719
Item NB1686
PublisherNimbus Publishing Limited
PublisherNimbus Publishing Limited
Published on April 30 2024
Language ENG
Pages 288
Format Paperback
Dimensions8.5(in) x 5.5(in)
Shipping weight(g)
Status NOT YET PUBLISHED
Carol Bruneau
Carol Bruneau is the author of three short story collections and four novels. Her first novel, Purple for Sky, won the 2001 Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and the Dartmouth Book Award. Her 2007 novel, Glass Voices, was a Globe and Mail Best Book. Her reviews, stories, and essays have appeared nationwide in newspapers, journals, and anthologies, and two of her novels have been published internationally. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with her husband, their dog, and their cat.

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In A Bird on Every Tree we run through a wide range of 12 beautiful and genuine stories, all connected through the considerable pull of Nova Scotia.
  

Bruneau is a master. We should know this by now, but A Bird on Every Tree is a powerful reminder.
  

Carol Bruneau's collection of short stories A Bird on Every Tree gloriously explores the complex relationship people have with the place they call home.
  

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