You Can’t Stay Here
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ISBN-13: 9781771871440
ISBN-10: 177187144X
PLR Registration 173980 -
256 pages
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English
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Thistledown Press
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October 1, 2017
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13.97 x 1.65 x 21.59 cm
A collection of short stories. Thistledown Press, Fall 2017.
Jasmina Odor’s rich writing invites us to step into the shoes of Croatian immigrants living in Canada, and the Croatian soldiers and families who remain behind. Each passionate story in this collection varies in perspective, and yet all share Odor’s sensual writing and undertones of the trauma of life during wartime. Through the stories in You Can’t Stay Here, we are transported to the warm Adriatic Sea, rented rooms, wartime frontlines, and Canadian suburbia. We fall in love with those conflicted in their broken families, as well as those immigrants, travellers, and refugees who succeed in their difficult searches for place and finding a home. In this debut collection, we are left feeling overwhelming care for our fellow humans, neighbours, and countrymen.
