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How to tell if your frog is dead : stories / Julie Roorda.

by Roorda, Julie.

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Guernica editions, 2019.

Essential prose series ; 162.

9781771833646 (trade pbk)

viii, 237 p. ; 21 cm.

How to tell if your frog is dead -- Predestination -- 'Til death -- Wheel -- Beside herself -- Bouncing lessons -- Fear and dissembling -- Natural selection -- The revelation to Keith -- Random swerves -- Assurance of things hoped for -- By grace -- Acts of God -- Life of a saint -- Acceptance -- Lucy's head -- Knowledge of good and evil -- Little brother -- Oracle -- Free will -- Discomfort food -- Laws of gravity -- Wits' end -- Denial -- Prodigal -- Work-life balance -- Dead souls -- Djinn -- Possible world -- Face to face -- Live broadcast -- The prayers and confessions of Chloë Sinclair -- Stan's search for meaning.

A tour guide leads a Valentine's Day-themed ghost walk, visiting the sites of horrific, yet romantic, deaths. A homicide cop solves tough cases using tips from his plants. Scientists discover a new species of religiously observant gophers, and a young math whiz, on the hunt for her escaped boa constrictor, ponders the theory of multiple worlds. Replete with dark humour and cheeky interrogations of philosophy and metaphysics, the thirty-three stories in How to Tell if Your Frog is Dead expose the fundamental absurdity of the human condition.

Black humor (Literature)

Short stories, Canadian.

Canadian fiction.

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