When the train came, I got on and looked back at the blank stretch of tiles. Maybe if I stayed underground long enough, the city would look beautiful again when I came back up.

—Becky Blake, “Excerpt: Proof I Was Here”

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Works to Watch For

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  Songs For The End Of The World by Saleema Nawaz

  McClelland & Stewart

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  The Residence by Andrew Pyper

  Simon & Schuster

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  Swimmers In Winter by Faye Guenther

  Invisible Publishing

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  How To Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa

  McClelland & Stewart

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  You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked by Sheung-King

  Book Hug Press

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  The Dyzgraphxst edited by Canisia Lubrin

  McClelland & Stewart