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Equipoise / Katie Zdybel.

by Zdybel, Katie.

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Exile Editions, 2021.

Femininity -- Fiction.

Women -- Fiction.

9781550969337 (trade pbk.)

222 p. ; 20 cm.

"Ten stories"--cover.

The last thunderstorm swim of the summer -- Honey maiden -- House calls -- Equipoise -- The critics -- Progressive dinner -- The fly swimmer -- Glorious kingdom -- Northern tether.

Sometimes fiction is the only way to tell the most searing truths, and this book proves that axiom with its beautifully rendered characters and intimately populated settings. A young woman forms her own idea of feminine sexuality while skinny-dipping with her best friend's mother during a thunderstorm. A naive bride returns to her beloved Ontario farm country and, after an encounter with a young female beekeeper, suddenly sees her husband in a sobering new light. Under pretences, a rural doctor returns for her childhood friend, but finds the women in her new life have only a very specific use for her. A middle-aged woman facing the devastating end of a friendship as well as her last chance at childbirth, flees North only to be confronted with the complexities of life in the Yukon. The women of Equipoise struggle to find their positionality in life in relation to the women around them. They are also contoured by their geographies, caught between North and South, East and West, childhood home and adulthood home. They struggle to maintain a balance within the tension of their opposing female roles, landscapes, friendships, rivalries, victories, and catastrophes, always vigourously seeking equipoise.

Short stories, Canadian.

Canadian fiction.

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