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  • The Beauty of Vultures

    by Wendy McGrath, Danny Miles ...
    Series series Crow Said Poetry
    The interplay between photography, nature and poetic form is on full display in Wendy McGrath's and Danny Miles’ collaborative new work The Beauty of Vultures.This innovative collection takes readers into the surprisingly chatty world of birds, whose avian artistry and poignant plumage mimics the formally and structurally inventive tones found in each poem. The language wings its way between funny ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • The Santa Rosa Trilogy

    by Wendy McGrath ...
    Wendy McGrath’s The Santa Rosa Trilogy, a decade in the making, is finally available in a complete collection. Join a young Canadian girl in mid-century Edmonton, Alberta, as she seeks answers to life’s questions and finds beauty in the mundane.Santa Rosa: What is real when seen through the eyes of a child? When does the harshness of reality transform idyllic memories? The young narrator of Wendy ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Santa Rosa

    by Wendy McGrath ...
    What is real when seen through the eyes of a child? When does the harshness of reality transform idyllic memories? The young narrator of Santa Rosa seeks the answers to these questions as she tries to make sense of the disintegration of her parents' marriage—a process echoed by the slow disintegration of their neighbourhood. In subtle poetic prose, Wendy McGrath evokes afternoons at the fair ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • North East

    by Wendy McGrath ...
    In North East, Wendy McGrath expands on the story she began with Santa Rosa, as a working class couple living in 1960s Edmonton drift further apart while their young daughter tries to understand subtle shifts she senses taking place under the surface of her family and her neighbourhood. A visit to her grandparents’ farm in the country reveals the abject poverty the couple came to the city to ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Broke City

    by Wendy McGrath ...
    Series Book 3 - Santa Rosa Trilogy
    Broke City, the final book in Wendy McGrath's Santa Rosa trilogy, follows young Christine as she edges into self-awareness in the now-vanished Edmonton neighbourhood of Santa Rosa.Budding with creativity that her working-class parents do not understand, Christine questions her parents' fraught relationship, with alcoholism and implicit violence bubbling just under the surface of their marriage. ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

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    In the early 1960s, a young girl and her brother move to their grandparents’ flourmill in Dodoma in newly-independent Tanzania. Her grandfather bellows his love for East Africa, where he and other Indian merchants have thrived. But the ground is shifting. President Nyerere is calling for the widespread nationalization of property. The hum of the mill has quieted. The young girl prays at the ... Read more

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