Nov 27 2020
In a history-making triumph for its Canadian author and publisher, A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path: Animal Metaphors in Eastern Indonesian Society has won the 42nd annual Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year.
The result means a first-ever win of the august literary prize by a Canadian author—the University of Alberta anthropologist Gregory Forth—while McGill-Queen’s University Press now becomes the only Canadian publisher to grab the crown.
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The Narrowboat Summer
by Anne Youngson
From the author of Meet Me at the Museum, a charming novel of second chances.
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At the Edge of the Haight
by Katherine Seligman
Winner of the 2019 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction.
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