Today PENINSULA SINKING by David Huebert publishes with Biblioasis! Happy Book Birthday David!
From the Publisher: “In Peninsula Sinking, David Huebert brings readers an assortment of Maritimers caught between the places they love and the siren call of elsewhere. From submarine officers to prison guards, oil refinery workers to academics, each character in these stories struggles to find some balance of spiritual and emotional grace in the world increasingly on the precipice of ruin. Peninsula Sinking offers up eight urgent and electric meditations on the mysteries of death and life, of grief and love, and never shies away from the joy and horror of our submerging world.”
PRAISE FOR PENINSULA SINKING
“This book is Noah’s freaking Ark. All of life, animal and human, is intimately crammed inside of it and the whole vessel has been expertly designed to stand the surrounding storm. David Huebert has some of the smartest, saddest, funniest, best stuff I’ve read in years. There are scenes and sentences in here that will stick with you for a very long time.”
—Alexander MacLeod, author of Light Lifting
“David Huebert’s Peninsula Sinking is a marvellous combination of a precise mastery of language and sheer confidence in voice – no matter who or what his characters are, no matter where they go, you believe and you see. His is an unusual gift.”
—Russell Wangersky, author of The Hour of Bad Decisions
“[Peninsula Sinking]establishes Huebert as one of Canada’s most impressive young writers … the stories are far-reaching, but tightly woven, each focused on characters in significant moments of development or change.”
—Robert Wiersma, Quill & Quire
“Peninsula Sinking comes on like weather: A gust, then calm, then a whiteout, then sheet lightning followed by a bone-soaking warmth as another treacherous cloudbank forms in the distance. David Huebert’s prose doesn’t flag, not once. Each sentence is alive and crackling. His turns of phrase will catch your breath in your throat. These stories will sweep you up.”
—Laurie D. Graham, author of Rove
“…one of those young writers who has the ability and confidence to present the everyday in extraordinary ways. Many of his characters are seemingly trapped not only by common demands and current circumstances but also by their own desire to be unambitious. His characters might sometimes be a little lost, but like David Huebert’s writing they often soar far above the mundane and demand to be hard.”
—David Layton, author of The Dictator
PRAISE FOR DAVID HUEBERT
“A paean to intimacy and to things rarely seen, ‘Enigma’ is an eloquent meditation on the mystery of life and death, love and grief, both human and animal. This is a vivid personal narrative of remarkable spiritual and emotional grace.”
—CBC Short Story Prize Jury
“I was impressed by the way that “Colloquium: J.T. Henry and Lady Simcoe on Early Ontario Petrocolonialism” repurposes historical texts to frame the ongoing violence of extraction and dispossession within the language of early settlers.”
—Damien Rogers
“These poems have the keys to the zoo, and they’re ready to let the wild rumpus start.”
—Geoffery Morrison
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Rights Sold: World English, Biblioasis