Bad Imaginings

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Winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the Governor-Generals Award for fiction and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, Caroline Addersons short fiction collection travels far and wide. From adolescent brothers marooned at an indifferent relatives cottage, to a Depression-era Ukrainian immigrant reading the drought-parched skies above Pallisers Triangle, to two friends trying to make sense of feminism in the eighties, Adderson captures her characters cadences, conflicts, and consolations, their individual burdens and the mysteries they share. Adventurous, often funny, and impeccably researched, these stories chart their lives with compassion and intelligence.Praise forBad ImaginingsBad Imaginingsis the sort of book that stays with a reader long after it has been closed. A singular book, deep and mature. Caroline Adderson deserves congratulations.Globe & MailThere is very little in Addersons first short story collection that is not excellent . . . Each of these stories is accomplished in its own unexpected way; I find it impossible to pick a favourite. Quill & QuireAstonishing . . . Adderson writes from so many perspectives that she seems to pirouette over territory that few writers would dare approach . . . These often funny and always adventurous stories are deeply felt and wildly imagined tributes to our own fragile, blinkered lives. And they fulfill the only real condition of art: they make you feel richer for having read them. The Georgia Straight