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Prairie books NOW
#86 Spring/Summer 2025
What you'll find inside:
-Debut novel explores coming of age in Uganda amid social pressure, homophobia
-Long poem shares process of building kinship with pain, rebuilding sense of self
-Playwright examines polarizing topic of MAID and Jewish faith with flashes of humour
-Previously unpublished stories, essays by Carol Shields join magazine articles in new collection
-Evil lives in the ‘least likely, most surprising of places’ in middle-years fantasy that centres on trees
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