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freehand books fall 2010
Freehand Books
an imprint of Broadview Press
Acquiring Editor: Robyn [email protected]
Managing Editor: Sarah [email protected]
412 - 815 1st Street SWCalgary, ABT2P 1N3tel. 403-452-5662fax. 403-233-0001
Cover illustration from Tangles: A story about Alzheimer’s, my mother, and me by Sarah Leavitt
Freehand Books gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for its publishing program.
Freehand Books, an imprint of Broadview Press, acknowledges the financial support for its publishing program from the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP).
Tangles: A story about Alzheimer’s, my mother, and meA graphic memoir by Sarah Leavitt
What do you do when your outspoken, passionate, and quick-witted mother starts fading into a forgetful, fearful woman? In this powerful graphic memoir, Sarah Leavitt reveals how Alzheimer’s disease trans-formed her mother Midge—and her family—forever.
In spare black and white drawings and clear, candid prose, Sarah shares her family’s journey through a harrowing range of emotions—shock, denial, hope, anger, frustration—all the while learning to cope, and managing to find moments of happiness. Midge, a Harvard-educated intellectual, struggles to comprehend the simplest words; Sarah’s father Rob slowly adapts to his new role as full-time caretaker, but still finds time for word-play and poetry with his wife; Sarah and her sister Hannah argue, laugh, and grieve together as they join forces to help Midge get to sleep, rage about family friends who have disappeared, or collapse in tears at the end of a heartbreaking day.
Tangles provides a window on the complexity of Alzheimer’s disease, and ultimately opens a knot of moments, memories, and dreams to reveal a bond between a mother and a daughter that will never come apart.
ISBN 1-55111-117-9
978-1-55111-117-9
$23.95 CDN
9 X 10 PB, 120 PAGES
GRAPHIC MEMOIR
SEPTEMBER 2010
Sarah Leavitt writes both prose and comics. Her writing has appeared in Geist, The Globe and Mail, Vancouver Review, The Georgia Straight and Xtra West. Leavitt has written short documentaries for Definitely Not the Opera on CBC Radio, and her non-fiction has appeared in a number of anthologies, including Nobody’s Mother (Heritage 2006) and Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer’s Disease (Kent State University Press 2009). She has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC. Tangles is her first book.
PRAISE FOR TANGLES:
“Brimming with humility and insight, Leavitt proves herself a skilled and unflinching memoirist. Her spare, evocative
illustrations and the tender restraint of her prose will leave you breathless, heartbroken and profoundly grateful.”
—Nancy Lee, author of Dead Girls
• promotional postcards• author appearances: Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Kingston• print ads: The Walrus, Geist• pitches to major literary festivals • national review mailing
SEPTEMBER NON-FICTION 1
Blue Sunflower StartleA novel by Yasmin Ladha
It’s the early 1960s. Tanganyika is now Tanzania after centuries of British rule. And a six-year-old girl of Indian descent is uprooted from her family home in Tukuyu when her father is diagnosed with cancer. She leaves the familiar tall grasses of her southern highland hometown for the dust and thorny trees of Dodoma to live at her grandparents’ flourmill. As tensions between long-settled Indians and native Africans continue to grow, her grandfather boasts his undying love for Allah and Africa, her grandmother orders tailored wool clothes from Gentleman’s Row in London, and the girl’s ideas about home, belonging, and identity begin to crumble.
Years later, the young woman and her family immigrate to Calgary, Alberta and she begins a lifelong love affair with the prairies. Unwilling to settle for geographical monogamy, she plays hard to get, travelling to Delhi, India for trysts with her Kashmiri lover and to Chonju, Korea where she works as a language teacher. Yet always, she is distracted by thoughts of ‘home’—a fantasized Canadian West of barn dances and blueberry muffins—and imagines not only a place that she can return to, but a place the beckons her return.
Blue Sunflower Startle offers the reader select mementoes of a childhood stubbornly affixed to place and an adulthood spent often in the air. Written in unusual, intoxicating, and poetic prose, Ladha has written a modern day Romance for frequent travellers and restless, rootless spirits.
ISBN 1-55481-016-1
978-1-55481-016-1
$21.95 CDN • $21.95 US
6 X 9 PB, 200 PAGES
NOVEL
OCTOBER 2010
WORLD RIGHTS
Yasmin Ladha is a Canadian fiction writer, currently working in Muscat, Oman. She completed her BA and MA in English at the University of Calgary. Her published works include the collection of short stories, Lion’s Granddaughter and Other Stories (NeWest Press, 1992); the chapbook Bridal Hands on the Maple (Second Wednesday Press, 1992); and Women Dancing on Rooftops: Bring your Belly Close, a book of short stories, documentary-fiction, personal essays and poetry (TSAR, 1997). Her story “Coca-Cola and Cowboys” was awarded first prize in a CBC Radio short story competition in 2005.
• promotional postcards• author appearances: Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Toronto• print ads: The Walrus, subTerrain• pitches to major literary festivals• national review mailing
2 OCTOBER FICTION
PRAISE FOR YASMIN LADHA:
“Yasmin Ladha splits the page wide open.... These stories delight in their ability to capture one’s senses, drag the reader to the
centre of taste or sight or sound, then backflip into an ending of surprise but never trickery. ”—Nicole Markotic, Prairie Fire
Here Is Where We DisembarkPoetry by Clea Roberts
In Here Is Where We Disembark, Yukon author Clea Roberts eloquently confronts our preconceptions about the Canadian North, and invites the reader on an exquisite tour through wilderness, small town life, and history, in two parts. In the first section, Roberts deftly navigates a vast and shifting landscape throughout a cycle of seasons. The winter moon’s second-hand light pools in the tracks of tree squirrels; soft spring mud kisses the heels of galoshes while redpolls take to the wind; the mythical summer solstice sky tap dances and back flips overhead. Yet, she notes that this environment is also marked with the manufactured—the saw blade falsetto of ice lanterns on the lake, the thick stutter of j-brakes on the highway—and masterfully meditates on the complex web of relationships between humans and the natural world. In the second section, Roberts casts her gaze back to the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896 – 1899 and uses a variety of unusual personas, including a wolf, a woodcutter, and a resident ghost to creatively re-imagine and re-frame this frenetic race for fortune.
Here Is Where We Disembark is a beautifully crafted, ecologically conscious debut collection of poems that ignites the senses and then lingers, like woodsmoke, long after the final page is turned.
ISBN 1-55111-851-3
978-1-55111-851-2
$16.95 CDN • $16.95 US
6 X 9 PB, 90 PAGES
POETRY
SEPTEMBER 2010
WORLD RIGHTS
Clea Roberts lives in Whitehorse, Yukon on the Takhini River. Her poems have appeared in The Antigonish Review, CV2, The Dalhousie Review, The International Feminist Journal of Politics, Lake: A Journal of Arts and the Environment, The Malahat Review, Prism International, and Room. Roberts has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Centre, the Atlantic Centre for the Arts, and is a three-time recipient of the Yukon Government Advanced Artist Award. Her work has been nominated for a National Magazine Award and her poem, “When We Begin to Grow Old,” won the After Al Purdy Poetry Contest. Clea co-organizes the Whitehorse Poetry Festival.
• promotional postcards• author appearances: Whitehorse, Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary • print ads: Literary Review of Canada• pitches to major literary festivals• national review mailing
SEPTEMBER POETRY 3
Moon when coyote is my shadow.Moon of the snappingwillow thickets.Moon of themissing cats.
Moon of the potluckMoon of tock, tockat the woodpile.Moon of filchedsleep.
—from “Transmutations”
4 FEATURED FICTION
“Marina Endicott is really funny, a sweet-natured but sharp-eyed and quick-tongued social observer in the Jane Austen-Barbara Pym-Anne Tyler tradition, who can wring love, revulsion and
hilarity from readers in a single page.”—T.F. Rigelhof, The Globe and Mail
• Finalist for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize!
• Over 25,000 copies sold!
• Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Award—Canada and the Caribbean!
• A CBC Canada Reads 2010 selection!
“It’s as if Jane Austen and Franz Kafka collaborated on a short story collection while Albert Einstein acted as editor.”
—Patricia Robertson, The Toronto Star
“A writer with an original sensibility, he’s got a gazillion curious, funny and disturbing things to say about our lives and our
world. Read this book—you’ll see.”—MAC Farrant, The Vancouver Sun
• Finalist for the 2010 Alberta Readers’ Choice Award!
Good to a FaultA novel by Marina Endicott
Buying Cigarettes for the DogShort stories by Stuart Ross
978-1-55111-999-1$19.95 CDN
978-1-55111-879-6$19.95 CDN • $19.95 US
WORLD RIGHTS
FEATURED NONFICTION 5
“There’s hope in the art of Olivier, whose line drawings evoke the work of R.O. Blechman. Though much of the
work—some old, some produced for the book—is bleak, he infuses a remarkable amount of humour and
joy into his drawings.”—Mark Medley, The National Post
“The book’s greatest strength is its profound ability to humanize a frequently misunderstood condition, and to
highlight mental illness as the ‘orphan child’ of the health care community.”—Quill & Quire
“The book is filled with this kind of well-wrought, pithy observation about life, pain, parenting, illness and other
essential components of human existence.”—Nigel Beale, The Globe and Mail
“Susan Olding’s work combines the visceral force of lived experience with the nuance and narrative drive of the best
fiction. These essays are much more than essays, tracing the path from our pathologies to our deepest mysteries and fears and
our most cherished hopes.”—Nino Ricci
• Longlisted for the 2009 BC National Award for Canadian Non-fiction!
• Longlisted for The Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction!
Bitter Medicine: A Graphic Memoir of Mental IllnessA graphic memoir by Clem Martini and Olivier Martini
Pathologies: A Life in EssaysEssays by Susan Olding
978-1-55111-928-1$23.95 CDN
978-1-55111-930-4$23.95 CDN • $23.95 US
WORLD RIGHTS
6 FEATURED POETRY
“Ferguson is an energized, clear-eared poet with ground to cover. Swooning the messy, ironic, dark and hopeful details of life, Ferguson composes the ballads of fathers, lovers, poets, sons,
students and environmentalists.”—The Winnipeg Free Press
• Shortlisted for the 2009 CAA-Book Television Emerging Author Award!
“Lynes’ generous use of sarcasm and sardonic humour creates an ironic tone throughout the entire chronology of poems. There is a toughness in the delivery that is underscored by intimations of the subject’s tenderness and vulnerability, bringing the reader a
little bit closer to the living, breathing individual that was Dusty Springfield.”—Atlantic Books Today
“This collection is fun to read, creating a reel of scenes and impressions, and it takes less time to absorb than a biography.”
—Prairie Fire Review of Books
HarmonicsPoetry by Jesse Patrick Ferguson
It’s Hard Being Queen: The Dusty Springfield PoemsPoetry by Jeanette Lynes
978-1-55111-960-1$16.95 CDN • $16.95 US
WORLD RIGHTS
978-1-55111-926-7$16.95 CDN • $16.95 US
WORLD RIGHTS
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TITLES IN PRINT
Fiction
978-1-55481-016-1978-1-55111-879-6978-1-55111-978-6978-1-55111-999-1978-1-55111-927-4978-1-55111-932-8978-1-55111-925-0
Blue Sunflower StartleBuying Cigarettes for the DogDoctrine of Affections, TheGood to a FaultMother SuperiorOpen Armspostcard and other stories
Yasmin LadhaStuart RossPaul HeadrickMarina EndicottSaleema NawazMarina EndicottAnik See
2010200920102009200820092009
21.9519.9523.9519.9523.9523.9523.95
Nonfiction
978-1-55111-928-1
978-1-55111-930-4978-1-55111-117-9
Bitter Medicine: A Graphic Memoir of Mental IllnessPathologies: A Life in EssaysTangles: A story about Alzheimer’s, my mother, and me
Clem Martini and Olivier MartiniSusan OldingSarah Leavitt
2010
20082010
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23.9523.95
978-1-55111-960-1978-1-55111-851-2978-1-55111-926-7
978-1-55111-961-8
HarmonicsHere Is Where We DisembarkIt’s Hard Being Queen: The Dusty Springfield PoemssubUrban Legends
Jesse FergusonClea RobertsJeanette Lynes
Joan Crate
200920102008
2009
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Poetry
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