Suddenly Light
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4.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Longlisted for the 2026 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
An Apple Books Best Book of 2025
Among the CBC’s Best Canadian Fiction of 2025
A Necessary Fiction Best Book of 2025
“These stories give literary realism a good name.”—Kirkus Reviews
Fifteen stories replete with an intimate, nuanced, and quietly profound realism by the Trillium Book Award–winning author of The Clarion
With crisp and penetrating prose, the stories in Suddenly Light are bracing, buoyant, and test the delicate threads that tie us together.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Author Nina Dunic introduces us to some truly remarkable characters in this thoughtful collection of short stories showing how awkward and tenuous real human connection can be. In Suddenly Light, we meet characters who feel like people we see every day who are placed in unexpected situations: overnight security guards at a shopping mall and the interloper they find, a high school student who discovers a familiar-looking man frozen in the park, a pair of roommates who enjoy spying on the frequently naked woman across the street, a pet groomer who haltingly befriends a neighbourhood character. Dunic’s stories are neatly constructed, subtle but capable of delivering an out-of-nowhere emotional punch that has the ring of truth. It’s a book full of pleasant surprises and uncomfortable revelations.
