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Sleeping funny : stories / Miranda Hill.

by Hill, Miranda.

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Doubleday Canada, c2012.

312 p. ; 22 cm.

The variance -- Apple -- Petitions to St. Chronic -- 6:19 -- Because of Geraldine -- Precious -- Digging for Thomas -- Rise: a requiem (with parts for voice and wing) -- Sleeping funny -- Acknowledgements.

"These stories showcase Miranda Hill's astonishing range and virtuosity, introducing us to a protean variety of characters, each as well-realized as the next. Here is a writer who can seamlessly inhabit the consciousness of a sixteen-year-old navigating an embarrassing sex-ed class, a middle-aged minister experiencing a devastating crisis of faith in a 19th century rural village, a pilot's widow coping with her grief by growing an unusual "victory garden" during World War II, and well-heeled modern professional women juggling jobs, kids, and husbands, and trying to cope with the arrival of a beautiful bohemian neighbour, on a gentrified street in downtown Toronto. The qualities that unite these remarkable stories are a pervasive sense of mystery and magic, a wonderful wit and sophistication, and most surprisingly, the slight disorientation implied by the title."--Publisher.

Short stories, Canadian.

Canadian fiction.

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