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The Journey prize stories. [29] : the best of Canada's new writers / selected by Kevin Hardcastle, Grace O'Connell and Ayelet Tsabari.

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McClelland & Stewart, 2017.

FICTION JOU v.29

9780771048203 (pbk.)

xv, 186 pages ; 21 cm.

Includes biographical notes about the authors and notes about the publications in which these stories first appeared as well as a complete list of previous contributing authors.

Introduction / Kevin Hardcastle, Grace O'Connell, and Ayelet Tsabari -- Butter tea at Starbucks / Sharon Bala -- Used to it / Michael Meagher -- They come crying / Sarah Kabamba -- Reading week / Sharon Bala -- Nature of things / Jack Wang -- Leech 93 / Patrick Doerksen -- Girl and a dog on a Friday night / Kelly Ward -- Subject Winifred / Maria Reva -- She is water / Darlene Naponse -- Old growth / Lisa Alward -- About the contributors -- About the contributing publications -- Previous contributing authors.

Now in its twenty-ninth year, the Journey Prize Stories is one of the most celebrated annual literary anthologies in North America. For almost 30 years, the anthology has consistently introduced readers to the next generation of great Canadian authors, a tradition that proudly continues with this latest edition. With settings ranging from wartime China to an island off the coast of British Columbia, the ten stories in the 2017 collection represent the year's best short fiction by exciting emerging voices. A young boy who believes he is being stalked by an unstoppable, malevolent entity discovers that he may not be the only one. In a sweeping story set against the fall of Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War, a pregnant woman waits anxiously for her doctor husband to leave the city before it's too late. A river that runs through a First Nations community is the source of sustenance, escape, and tragedy for a girl and her family. The haunting footage of the politically motivated self-immolation has unexpected reverberations for a Tibetan-Canadian woman dealing with multiple conflicts in her own life. A man who works a back-breaking job at an industrial mat cleaning service is pushed to his limit. When her mother has to return to Kinshasa to bury a family member, a girl gradually learns of the intricacy and depth of grief, in an evocative piece that illuminates the cultural gaps common within immigrant families, and the power of food and stories to bridge them.

Short stories, Canadian.

Hardcastle, Kevin, 1980-

O'Connell, Grace, 1984-

Tsabari, Ayelet, 1973-

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