This Unlikely Soil
Andrea Routley
(Author)
Description
In This Unlikely Soil, prize-winning writer Andrea Routley delivers stories of queer women navigating love and life against the lush, isolated backdrop of Canada's West Coast. A dog that bites, a bear suffering from a hemorrhoid, an aggressive willow tree, berried-up Dungeness crabs and erotic mussels... The dense West-Coast landscape of This Unlikely Soil echoes the fraught search for connection of the rural-dwelling queer characters in this quintet of novellas. Finalist for the Malahat Review Novella Prize, this sophomore collection from Lambda Literary Award-finalist Andrea Routley explores the queer state of wandering, violence, and loss with surprising humour and compassion.
Product Details
Price
$18.95
$17.62
Publisher
Caitlin Press
Publish Date
January 24, 2023
Pages
240
Dimensions
5.6 X 7.7 X 0.9 inches | 0.6 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781773860985
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About the Author
Andrea Routley is a writer and editor. Her work has appeared in literary magazines, such as Geist and The Fiddlehead Review. In 2020, her novella, This Unlikely Soil, was shortlisted for the Malahat Review Novella Prize. Her debut collection, Jane and the Whales (Caitlin Press, 2013), was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. She is an MFA candidate at UBC (Okanagan) where she is at work on her third book. Though a small-town queer at heart, she currently resides in Vancouver, BC
Reviews
"To borrow one of the images from This Unlikely Soil, Andrea Routley's rewarding collection of novellas contain pearls of narrative self-knowledge formed from the jagged edges of intimacy and asymmetrical desire. Sensual and sensuous in her command of detail, Routley writes with confidence and power." --Kevin Chong, author of The Plague and The Double Life of Benson Yu "The compelling, delicately drawn characters in This Unlikely Soil and the evocation of the beauty of the everyday in these novellas by Andrea Routley will strike any reader of this book." --Naben Ruthnum, 2020 Malahat Review Novella Prize juror and author of A Hero of Our Time "Andrea Routley's novella collection This Unlikely Soil delivers engrossing stories about contemporary queer women's lives with rich detail, humor, verve, and compassion. Routley's attention to her characters is dark and unflinching as she gazes at the messiness of modern life, then pure and honest as the characters find themselves struggling for authentic meaning. In these stories, Routley seamlessly integrates the technologies of daily life with individual drama and the spectacles of the natural world. Read this book for the insight it provides into who we are now." --Julie R. Enszer, editor of Sinister Wisdom and author of Avowed
