Bookworm

Bookworm

Bookworm, no. 74

Selena Mercuri reviews Sarah Moses’s “Strange Water.” David Venn reviews Marie Wilson’s “North of Nowhere.” Poetry by Jade Riordan. Inside the December issue.

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Literary Review of Canada
Dec 17, 2024
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All the Small Things

Strange Water
Sarah Moses
Guernica Editions
128 pages, softcover and ebook

Sarah Moses’s debut story collection, Strange Water, blends the surreal with the mundane. In such entries as “Strange Anger,” where a couple throws their supper on the lawn after a fight and leaves it for the cockroaches, she creates unsettling environments to une…

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