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If Sylvie Had Nine Lives

by (author) Leona Theis

Publisher
Freehand Books
Initial publish date
Sep 2020
Subjects
Literary, Short Stories (single author)
Categories
Author lives in Saskatchewan , Set in Saskatchewan

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    ISBN
    9781988298726
    Publish Date
    Sep 2020
    List Price
    $10.99

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Description

Do you ever look back and wonder, What if...?

Meet Sylvie — funny, sly, sensual and flawed. She can’t always count on herself to make good choices. Like all of us, Sylvie must make decisions that have reverberations for years to come. Unlike the rest of us, Sylvie gets to live more than one life.

About the author

Leona Theis’s first book, Sightlines, linked stories that form a portrait of a town, won two Saskatchewan Book Awards. Excerpts from her novel The Art of Salvage were shortlisted for novella awards on both the east and west coasts of Canada. Her personal essays have been published in literary magazines in Canada and the United States, won creative nonfiction awards from the CBC and Prairie Fire Magazine, and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including The Journey Prize Stories, and American Short Fiction, where her work won the story prize. She lives in Saskatoon.

Leona Theis' profile page

Awards

  • Winner, Saskatchewan Fiction Award

Editorial Reviews

"Sylvie, the engaging heart of this inventive novel-in-stories, is a woman who truly contains multitudes. With these tales of rash decisions, romance, mishaps and missteps, Leona Theis delves deeply into the layers that make up a life, many times over. Readers will be surprised and entertained as they get to know a new Sylvie in each chapter, every one a gem."

Julie Paul

"If Sylvie Had Nine Lives is a remarkable book, a palimpsest of different versions of a life that gives us a haunting, thrilling glimpse of the slender choices our lives hang by and the tangled threads that make even the simplest of them infinite mysteries."

Nino Ricci