Mennonites Don't Dance
Short Stories
- Publisher
- Tidewater Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2023
- Subjects
- Short Stories (single author), Amish & Mennonite
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- ISBN
- 9781990160257
- Publish Date
- Apr 2023
- List Price
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Description
A Danuta Gleed finalist and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize, this collection of short stories breaks through the surface of authoritarian religion and families, and into the lives of the women and children often trapped within its constraints.
Set on the Canadian prairies, one story follows a young girl into a labyrinth of frozen meat lockers where she becomes trapped by more than just the ice. In another, the difference between suicide and murder is in the eye of the beholder. Threaded with moments of both dark humour and unexpected grace, this new edition of Mennonites Don’t Dance also contains an additional story, not included in the original collection.
About the author
Awards
- Short-listed, OLA Evergreen Award for Adult Fiction
- Short-listed, Danuta Gleed Award
- Short-listed, Commonwealth Writers Prize
Contributor Notes
Darcie Friesen Hossack is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers with roots in the Mennonite and Seventh-day Adventist communities. A career food writer and editor of the online WordCity Literary Journal, her short story collection, Mennonites Don’t Dance (Thistledown Press), was a runner-up for the Danuta Gleed Award, and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Ontario Library Association’s Forest of Reading Evergreen Award for Adult Fiction. A resident of southern Ontario, Stillwater is her first novel.
Editorial Reviews
“. . . a complex treasure . . . Each story is wrapped in themes of anger, guilt and the Mennonite work ethic. Thankfully, the jagged edges of this treasure are gilded, occasionally, with grace and hope.” Adelia Neufeld Wiens, Winnipeg Free Press
“There’s an unfussy purity of expression here, and of narrative control, that sometimes recalls the short fiction of Alistair MacLeod. Images come cleanly to the mind’s eye while the prose itself recedes. The other MacLeodian element is Hossack’s stealthy way with emotion. She never tells you how to feel. When you do find your heart opening to these characters, it rises from their authenticity, and a sure authorial hand with the interplay of surprise and inevitability.” Jim Bartley, The Globe and Mail