{"product_id":"chemical-valley-9781771964470","title":"Chemical Valley","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction - A Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award Finalist - A 2022 ReLit Award Finalist - A Siskiyou Prize Semi-Finalist - A \u003cem\u003eMiramichi Reader\u003c\/em\u003e Best Fiction Title of 2021\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOil-soaked and swamp-born, the bruised optimism of Huebert's stories offer sincere appreciation of the beauty of our wilted, wheezing world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom refinery operators to long term care nurses, dishwashers to preppers to hockey enforcers, \u003cem\u003eChemical Valley\u003c\/em\u003e's compassionate and carefully wrought stories cultivate rich emotional worlds in and through the dankness of our bio-chemical animacy. Full-hearted, laced throughout with bruised optimism and sincere appreciation of the profound beauty of our wilted, wheezing world, \u003cem\u003eChemical Valley\u003c\/em\u003e doesn't shy away from urgent modern questions--the distribution of toxicity, environmental racism, the place of technoculture in this ecological spasm--but grounds these anxieties in the vivid and often humorous intricacies of its characters' lives. Swamp-wrought and heartfelt, these stories run wild with vital energy, tilt and teeter into crazed and delirious loves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Huebert\u003c\/b\u003e's writing has won the CBC Short Story Prize, \u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for the 2020 Journey Prize. David's fiction debut, \u003cem\u003ePeninsula Sinking\u003c\/em\u003e, won a Dartmouth Book Award, was shortlisted for the Alistair MacLeod Short Fiction Prize, and was runner-up for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. David's work has been published in magazines such as \u003cem\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMaisonneuve\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eenRoute\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eCanadian Notes \u0026amp; Queries\u003c\/em\u003e, and anthologized in \u003cem\u003eBest Canadian Stories\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Journey Prize Stories\u003c\/em\u003e. David teaches literature and creative writing at The University of New Brunswick.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Biblioasis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50444951617810,"sku":"9781771964470","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_10276303-e4e0-42b6-bab6-afc60cc26a33.jpg?v=1729692815","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/chemical-valley-9781771964470","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}