
Scotiabank Giller Prize
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The Sleeping Car Porter
- Written by: Suzette Mayr
- Narrated by: Chris McPherson
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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Baxter’s name isn’t George. But it’s 1929, and Baxter is lucky enough, as a Black man, to have a job as a sleeping car porter on a train that crisscrosses the country. So when the passengers call him George, he has to just smile and nod and act invisible. What he really wants is to go to dentistry school, but he’ll have to save up a lot of nickel and dime tips to get there, so he puts up with “George.” On this particular trip out west, the passengers are more unruly than usual, especially when the train is stalled for two extra days.
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Distorted sound - could not endure
- By Claire on 2022-11-12
The 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize Winner
Congratulations to Suzette Mayr for winning the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize for The Sleeping Car Porter, a novel that brings to life an important part of Black history in North America, from the perspective of a queer man living in a culture that renders him invisible in two distinct ways.
The other shortlisted Giller Prize titles were We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama, Stray Dogs by Rawi Hage, If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga, and Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu.
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The 2022 Giller Prize Shortlist
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Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
- Written by: Kim Fu
- Narrated by: Piper Goodeve, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Samara Naeymi, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made familiar and the familiar strange, such that a girl growing wings on her legs feels like an ordinary rite of passage, while a bug-infested house becomes a Kafkaesque nightmare....
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review to come
- By Becca on 2022-11-03
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Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
- Narrated by: Piper Goodeve, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Samara Naeymi, Gary Tiedemann, Jeena Yi
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 2022-05-16
- Language: English
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Stray Dogs
- And Other Stories
- Written by: Rawi Hage
- Narrated by: Antoine Yared
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
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In Montreal, a photographer’s unexpected encounter with actress Sophia Loren leads to a life-altering revelation about his dead mother. In Beirut, a disillusioned geologist eagerly awaits the destruction that will come with an impending tsunami....
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Stray Dogs
- And Other Stories
- Narrated by: Antoine Yared
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 2022-03-01
- Language: English
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If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
- Written by: Noor Naga
- Narrated by: Amin El Gamal, Noor Naga
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
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In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a café in Cairo. He was a photographer of the revolution, but now finds himself unemployed and addicted to cocaine, living in a rooftop shack....
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Excellent Story
- By Christine Smith on 2023-01-08
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If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
- Narrated by: Amin El Gamal, Noor Naga
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 2022-04-12
- Language: English
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We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
- A Novel
- Written by: Tsering Yangzom Lama
- Narrated by: Asha Vijayasingham, Shridhar Solanki, Rishma Malik Scott
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
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In the wake of China’s invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s, Lhamo and her sister, Tenkyi, arrive at a refugee camp on the border of Nepal, having survived the dangerous journey across the Himalayas into exile when so many others did not....
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great book, medium audiobook
- By Tahereh Haji on 2022-11-12
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We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Asha Vijayasingham, Shridhar Solanki, Rishma Malik Scott
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 2022-05-24
- Language: English
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The Sleeping Car Porter
- Written by: Suzette Mayr
- Narrated by: Chris McPherson
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the perils of white passengers, ghosts, and his secret love affair....
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Distorted sound - could not endure
- By Claire on 2022-11-12
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The Sleeping Car Porter
- Narrated by: Chris McPherson
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 2022-10-14
- Language: English
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Past Giller Prize Winners
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What Strange Paradise
- A Novel
- Written by: Omar El Akkad
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives back in their homelands. But miraculously, someone has survived the passage: nine-year-old Amir, a Syrian boy who is soon rescued by Vänna. Vänna.
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Perspectives on modern tragedies
- By Roberta W on 2022-01-30
Written by: Omar El Akkad
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How to Pronounce Knife
- Stories
- Written by: Souvankham Thammavongsa
- Narrated by: James Tang, Kulap Vilaysack
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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A young man painting nails at the local salon. A woman plucking feathers at a chicken processing plant. A father who packs furniture to move into homes he'll never afford. A housewife learning English from daytime soap operas. In her stunning Giller Prize-winning debut book of fiction, Souvankham Thammavongsa focuses on characters struggling to make a living, illuminating their hopes, disappointments, love affairs, acts of defiance, and above all their pursuit of a place to belong.
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So Disappointing
- By Len on 2020-11-22
Written by: Souvankham Thammavongsa
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Reproduction
- A Novel
- Written by: Ian Williams
- Narrated by: Andrew Shaw, David Woodward, Michelle Winters
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Felicia and Edgar meet as their mothers are dying. Felicia, a teen from an island nation, and Edgar, the lazy heir of a wealthy German family, come together only because their mothers share a hospital room. When Felicia's mother dies and Edgar's "Mutter" does not, Felicia drops out of high school and takes a job as Mutter's caregiver. While Felicia and Edgar don't quite understand each other, and Felicia recognizes that Edgar is selfish, arrogant, and often unkind, they form a bond built on grief (and proximity)....
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So disappointed
- By Onika Blackman-Lloyd on 2019-12-17
Written by: Ian Williams
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Washington Black
- Written by: Esi Edugyan
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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When two English brothers arrive at a Barbados sugar plantation, they bring with them a darkness beyond what the slaves have already known. Washington Black - an 11-year-old field slave - is horrified to find himself chosen to live in the quarters of one of these men. But the man is not as Washington expects him to be. His new master is the eccentric Christopher Wilde - naturalist, explorer, inventor and abolitionist - whose obsession to perfect a winged flying machine disturbs all who know him.
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Awesome!
- By Louise White on 2018-11-13
Written by: Esi Edugyan
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Bellevue Square
- Written by: Michael Redhill
- Narrated by: Sarah Mennell
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Jean Mason has a doppelganger. She's never seen her, but others swear they have. Apparently, her identical twin hangs out in Kensington Market, where she sometimes buys churros and drags an empty shopping cart down the streets, like she's looking for something to put in it. Jean's a grown woman with a husband and two kids, as well as a thriving bookstore in downtown Toronto, and she doesn't rattle easily - not like she used to. But after two customers insist they've seen her double, Jean decides to investigate.
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A Mind-Bending Must Read!
- By Amazon Customer on 2017-11-20
Written by: Michael Redhill
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Fifteen Dogs
- Written by: André Alexis
- Narrated by: André Alexis
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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A bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a group of dogs overnighting at a Toronto veterinary clinic. Suddenly capable of more complex thought, the pack is torn between those who resist the new ways of thinking, preferring the old dog ways, and those who embrace the change. The gods watch from above as the dogs venture into their newly unfamiliar world, as they become divided among themselves, as each struggles with new thoughts and feelings.
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Fabulous
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-04-06
Written by: André Alexis
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What Strange Paradise
- A Novel
- Written by: Omar El Akkad
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives back in their homelands. But miraculously, someone has survived the passage: nine-year-old Amir, a Syrian boy who is soon rescued by Vänna. Vänna.
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Perspectives on modern tragedies
- By Roberta W on 2022-01-30
Written by: Omar El Akkad
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How to Pronounce Knife
- Stories
- Written by: Souvankham Thammavongsa
- Narrated by: James Tang, Kulap Vilaysack
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
A young man painting nails at the local salon. A woman plucking feathers at a chicken processing plant. A father who packs furniture to move into homes he'll never afford. A housewife learning English from daytime soap operas. In her stunning Giller Prize-winning debut book of fiction, Souvankham Thammavongsa focuses on characters struggling to make a living, illuminating their hopes, disappointments, love affairs, acts of defiance, and above all their pursuit of a place to belong.
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So Disappointing
- By Len on 2020-11-22
Written by: Souvankham Thammavongsa
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Reproduction
- A Novel
- Written by: Ian Williams
- Narrated by: Andrew Shaw, David Woodward, Michelle Winters
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Felicia and Edgar meet as their mothers are dying. Felicia, a teen from an island nation, and Edgar, the lazy heir of a wealthy German family, come together only because their mothers share a hospital room. When Felicia's mother dies and Edgar's "Mutter" does not, Felicia drops out of high school and takes a job as Mutter's caregiver. While Felicia and Edgar don't quite understand each other, and Felicia recognizes that Edgar is selfish, arrogant, and often unkind, they form a bond built on grief (and proximity)....
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So disappointed
- By Onika Blackman-Lloyd on 2019-12-17
Written by: Ian Williams
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Washington Black
- Written by: Esi Edugyan
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
When two English brothers arrive at a Barbados sugar plantation, they bring with them a darkness beyond what the slaves have already known. Washington Black - an 11-year-old field slave - is horrified to find himself chosen to live in the quarters of one of these men. But the man is not as Washington expects him to be. His new master is the eccentric Christopher Wilde - naturalist, explorer, inventor and abolitionist - whose obsession to perfect a winged flying machine disturbs all who know him.
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Awesome!
- By Louise White on 2018-11-13
Written by: Esi Edugyan
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Bellevue Square
- Written by: Michael Redhill
- Narrated by: Sarah Mennell
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Jean Mason has a doppelganger. She's never seen her, but others swear they have. Apparently, her identical twin hangs out in Kensington Market, where she sometimes buys churros and drags an empty shopping cart down the streets, like she's looking for something to put in it. Jean's a grown woman with a husband and two kids, as well as a thriving bookstore in downtown Toronto, and she doesn't rattle easily - not like she used to. But after two customers insist they've seen her double, Jean decides to investigate.
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A Mind-Bending Must Read!
- By Amazon Customer on 2017-11-20
Written by: Michael Redhill
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Fifteen Dogs
- Written by: André Alexis
- Narrated by: André Alexis
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
A bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a group of dogs overnighting at a Toronto veterinary clinic. Suddenly capable of more complex thought, the pack is torn between those who resist the new ways of thinking, preferring the old dog ways, and those who embrace the change. The gods watch from above as the dogs venture into their newly unfamiliar world, as they become divided among themselves, as each struggles with new thoughts and feelings.
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Fabulous
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-04-06
Written by: André Alexis
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Us Conductors
- Written by: Sean Michaels
- Narrated by: Steve Coulter
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Locked in a cabin aboard a ship bearing him back to Russia and away from the love of his life, Lev Sergeyvich Termen begins to type his story: a tale of electricity, romance, and the invention of the world's strangest instrument, the theremin. He recollects his early years as a scientist forging breakthroughs during the Bolshevik Revolution and his decade as a Manhattan celebrity and reluctant Soviet spy.
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Perhaps not the topic for me.
- By MEF on 2020-05-18
Written by: Sean Michaels
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Hellgoing
- Stories
- Written by: Lynn Coady
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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A young nun charged with talking an anorexic out of her religious fanaticism toys with the thin distance between practicality and blasphemy. A strange bond between a teacher and a schoolgirl takes on ever deeper and stranger shapes as the years progress. A bride-to-be with a penchant for nocturnal bondage can't seem to stop bashing herself up in the light of day. Equally adept at capturing the foibles and obsessions of men and of women, Lynn Coady is quite possibly the writer who best captures what it is to be human at this particular moment in our history.
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needs breaks
- By Adam Silver on 2020-06-14
Written by: Lynn Coady
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419
- Written by: Will Ferguson
- Narrated by: Pete Bradbury
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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A car tumbles through darkness down a snowy ravine. A woman without a name walks out of a dust storm in sub-Saharan Africa. And in the seething heat of Lagos City, a criminal cartel scours the Internet, looking for victims. Lives intersect. Worlds collide. And it all begins with a single email: "Dear Sir, I am the daughter of a Nigerian diplomat, and I need your help".
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At first I wasn’t sure-but then I fell in love!
- By Travelmug on 2018-02-26
Written by: Will Ferguson
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Half-Blood Blues
- Written by: Esi Edugyan
- Narrated by: Kyle Riley
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Esi Edugyan won wide acclaim for her stunning novel Half-Blood Blues - a Man Booker Prize finalist and winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize. In it, 83-year-old Sid Griffiths remembers his time during WWII playing in a Berlin jazz band called the Hot Time Swingers. When jazz music was denounced by the Nazis, Sid and his bandmates fled to Paris - a move that put Hieronymous, the band's brilliantly talented trumpeter, in constant danger due to his Afro-German heritage.
Written by: Esi Edugyan
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Late Nights on Air
- Written by: Elizabeth Hay
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Hay
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Harry Boyd, a hard-bitten refugee from failure in Toronto television, has returned to a small radio station in the Canadian North. There, in Yellowknife, in the summer of 1975, he falls in love with a voice on air, though the real woman, Dido Paris, is both a surprise and even more than he imagined. Dido and Harry are part of the cast of eccentric, utterly loveable characters who form an unlikely group at the station. Their loves and longings, their rivalries and entanglements, the stories of their pasts and what brought each of them to the North form the center.
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Audio Applaudable!
- By Janet Spies on 2023-01-28
Written by: Elizabeth Hay
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Runaway
- Stories
- Written by: Alice Munro
- Narrated by: Kymberly Dakin
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Three stories concern the same woman - in the first, she escapes from teaching at a girls' school into a wild love affair; in the second, she returns with her child to the home of her parents, whose marriage she finally begins to examine; and in the last, her vanished child turns up caught in the grip of a religious cult. In these and other stories Alice Munro's understanding of the people about whom she writes makes their lives as real as our own.
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Great stories, one quibble on good narration
- By Elizabeth Theis on 2018-09-18
Written by: Alice Munro