YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN Found Press Quarterly, Fall 2011 • $3.75

This Fall, FP Quarterly brings you You Can’t Go Home Again, a collection of stories depicting lives transformed, for better or for worse. Whether by the decisions we make ourselves, or by events that are entirely out of our control, we are changed, and there comes a time in each of our lives that we realize: there is no turning back. From social progress to revolution, from new beginnings to eternal rest, the stories in You Can’t Go Home Again will draw you in and leave you forever changed.

*Signature Editions: Exclusive to the FP Store, a special Signature Edition cover is now available, signed by all the wonderful authors who have contributed work to this collection. Simply choose the “Signature Edition” option when selecting your file format of choice.

Featuring stories by Grace O’Connell, Andrew Forbes, Lee Kvern, and Pauline Holdstock.

Praise

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for Grace O’Connell:

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“In this cautionary suburban fairy tale, a big-city refugee searching for home finds herself in a nest of multiple Mikes and Pyrex-wielding vipers. With enchanting style and snort-causing wit, Grace O’Connell does casserole-studded claustrophobia like nobody’s business.”
— Jessica Westhead, author of And Also Sharks and Pulpy & Midge

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for Andrew Forbes:

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“How do you give voice to a sax player silenced by the politics of his country? If you’re a jazz singer like Kurt Elling, you take Dexter Gordon’s solo on ‘Body and Soul’ from his Homecoming album and you turn it into vocalese. If your name is Andrew Forbes and your tenor sax player is Ethiopian and it is Addis Ababa 1973 and his musical idol is King Curtis, you write The Expansiveness of My Sound and what you write is wider, more straight-ahead, stronger with political fervour, sadder than Elling but every bit as smart. Forbes is doing it solo and you have to imagine the quartet behind him. Read it with your fingers tapping and you’ll catch the beat. Read it with your ears open and you’ll hear Metche Hufu’s body and soul. Dig it!”
— T. F. Rigelhof, author of Hooked on Canadian Books: The Good, the Better, and the Best Canadian Novels Since 1984

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for Lee Kvern:

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“[This Is a Love Crime] by Lee Kvern is a cunning and intensely human look at one of the central issues of our time. It negotiates the space between belief, racism, liberty, and sexuality with curiosity and compassion.”
— Todd Babiak, bestselling author of Toby: A Man and The Garneau Block

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for Pauline Holdstock:

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“Holdstock’s writing manages to be both heartbreakingly poetic and densely detailed . . . sad passages, ghostlike recollections, written almost from the vantage point of the present, establish the book as a great work of fiction.”
— The Globe and Mail on Into the Heart of the Country, longlisted for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize

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