Zolitude
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
WINNER OF THE 2018 QUEBEC WRITERS' FEDERATION CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY FIRST BOOK PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE 2018 DANUTA GLEED LITERARY AWARD
FINALIST FOR THE 2018 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION
A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2018
A QUILL & QUIRE BOOK OF THE YEAR
Fantastical, magnetic, and harsh—these are the women in Paige Cooper’s debut short story collection Zolitude. They are women who built time machines when they were nine, who buy plane tickets for lovers who won’t arrive. They are sisters writhing with dreams, blasé about sex but beggared by love—while the police horses have talons and vengeance is wrought by eagles the size of airplanes. Broken-down motorbikes and housebroken tyrannosaurs, cheap cigarettes and mail bombs—Cooper finds the beautiful and the disturbing in both the surreal and the everyday. Troubling, carnal, and haunting, these stories are otherworldly travelogues through banal, eco-fabulist dystopias. Zolitude is a gorgeous, sad, and sexy work of slipstream and an atlas of fantastic isolation. The monstrous is human here, and tender.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Zolitude reads like a best-of collection from an author you wish you’d known about sooner. In the broadest sense, Paige Cooper’s debut short-story collection deals with love and connection, but no two stories are alike, and neither are any of her narrators. Cooper shifts her settings from the jungle to a hunting lodge, from outer space to a quaint café; every step of the way, her rich, smart writing really sets this book apart. Strange, sultry, scientific, intriguing, and unnerving, these aren’t stories you pick up and put down. Zolitude is a book you hand over your entire weekend to willingly.
