{"product_id":"cocktail-9781771965620","title":"Cocktail","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award - \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction - \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the New Brunswick 2023 Mrs. Dunster's Award for Fiction -\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e's \"Sixty-Two Books to Read This Fall\" - Listed in \u003cem\u003eCBC Books\u003c\/em\u003e Fiction to Read in Fall 2023 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e- A \u003cem\u003eMiramichi Reader\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of 2023 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e- A \u003cem\u003eTyee\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A writer to watch.\"-\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA girl receives a bedtime visit from a drunken party guest, who will haunt her fantasies for years. A young mother discovers underneath the wallpaper a striking portrait that awakens inconvenient desires. A divorced man distracts himself from the mess he's made by flirting with a stranger. These intimate, immersive stories explore life's watershed moments, in which seemingly insignificant details--a pot of hyacinths, a freshly painted yellow wall--and the most chance of encounters come to exert a tidal pull. Set in the swinging sixties and each decade since, \u003cem\u003eCocktail\u003c\/em\u003e reveals the schism between the lives we build up around us and our deepest hidden selves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLisa Alward\u003c\/strong\u003e's short fiction has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Journey Prize\u003c\/em\u003e and twice in \u003cem\u003eBest Canadian Stories\u003c\/em\u003e. She has won the \u003cem\u003eFiddlehead\u003c\/em\u003e Prize as well as the Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award, has been a finalist for \u003cem\u003eThe Malahat Review\u003c\/em\u003e's Open Season Award, an honourable mention in the Peter Hinchcliffe Award, and been featured on numerous other long lists, including for the CBC Story Prize and \u003cem\u003ePrism International\u003c\/em\u003e's Jacob Zilber Prize (three times). She was born and grew up in Halifax and completed an English degree at the University of Toronto and an MA at Queen Mary College in London, England. In the eighties and early nineties, she worked in book publishing in Toronto, before moving with her young family to Vancouver and ultimately to Fredericton, New Brunswick, where at fifty she began to write stories. \u003cem\u003eCocktail\u003c\/em\u003e (Biblioasis), which received a starred review in \u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews, \u003c\/em\u003e is her debut collection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Biblioasis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50718831509778,"sku":"9781771965620","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bccc979b-9958-4da5-83a9-3014d25ce2c1.jpg?v=1734652342","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/cocktail-9781771965620","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}