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Learn moreThese twenty superbly crafted linked stories navigate the difficult realm of friendship, charting its beginnings and ends, its intimacies and betrayals, its joys and humiliations. A mother learns something of the nature of love from watching her young daughter as she falls in and out of favour with a neighbourhood girl. An intricate story of two women reveals a friendship held together by the steely bonds of passivity. A chance sighting in a library prompts a woman to recall the “unconsummated courtship” she was drawn into by a male colleague. With trenchant insight, uncommon honesty, and dark humour, Elizabeth Hay probes the precarious bonds that exist between friends. The result is an emotionally raw and provocative collection of stories that will resonate with readers long after the final page.
ELIZABETH HAY is the Giller Prize-winning author of six novels, including Late Nights on Air, His Whole Life, and A Student of Weather. Her memoir All Things Consoled won the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction; her story collection Small Change was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction. A former radio broadcaster, she spent a number of years in Mexico and New York City, and makes her home in Ottawa.
Kate Greenhouse has appeared in many TV and film roles, including the Universal feature film Flash of Genius with Greg Kinnear; and the A&E MOW, Touch The Top of The World with Peter Facinelli. Kate has also starred in a number of television series including Street Time, a popular Showtime series, with Terrence Howard and Rob Morrow. As a recurring/guest star Kate has been seen on such TV hits as: Earth Final Conflict; PSI Factor; LA Femme Nikita; Murdoch Mysteries; Alphas; and this season’s Hallmark fan favorite, The Good Witch.
Kate has also shone as a lead in such Canadian feature films as: The Dark Hours (Calder Road Films); The Assistant (Paragon Ent.); and Fools Die Fast (New Film Co.), and in such American MOWs as: Certain Prey (USA Network); Suburban Madness (CBS); The Miracle Worker (Disney); Webs(Syfy); Cara Cara (HBO); and The Roswell Project (UPN). Some of Kate’s Canadian television credits include: This is Wonderland (CBC); Windows (Carol Shields Project); Traders; and The Magician's House.
Last year, Kate played the lead, opposite Henry Rollins, in the feature film He Never Died.
ELIZABETH HAY is the Giller Prize-winning author of six novels, including Late Nights on Air, His Whole Life, and A Student of Weather. Her memoir All Things Consoled won the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction; her story collection Small Change was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction. A former radio broadcaster, she spent a number of years in Mexico and New York City, and makes her home in Ottawa.
Kate Greenhouse has appeared in many TV and film roles, including the Universal feature film Flash of Genius with Greg Kinnear; and the A&E MOW, Touch The Top of The World with Peter Facinelli. Kate has also starred in a number of television series including Street Time, a popular Showtime series, with Terrence Howard and Rob Morrow. As a recurring/guest star Kate has been seen on such TV hits as: Earth Final Conflict; PSI Factor; LA Femme Nikita; Murdoch Mysteries; Alphas; and this season’s Hallmark fan favorite, The Good Witch.
Kate has also shone as a lead in such Canadian feature films as: The Dark Hours (Calder Road Films); The Assistant (Paragon Ent.); and Fools Die Fast (New Film Co.), and in such American MOWs as: Certain Prey (USA Network); Suburban Madness (CBS); The Miracle Worker (Disney); Webs(Syfy); Cara Cara (HBO); and The Roswell Project (UPN). Some of Kate’s Canadian television credits include: This is Wonderland (CBC); Windows (Carol Shields Project); Traders; and The Magician's House.
Last year, Kate played the lead, opposite Henry Rollins, in the feature film He Never Died.
Reviews
“Compelling. . . . These linked stories are not so much conventional narratives as unflinching meditations on ambivalent love, the only love worth writing about, as John Updike once said. What readers and even literary jurors are responding to is how close to the bone Hay’s fiction is.” —Montreal Gazette“One of Ms. Hay’s most remarkable characteristics as a writer is her great economy, her ability to bring time in and out, to give long thoughts in short phrases, to create levels of intimacy and encroachment, to intensify the world by making it tense.” —Ottawa Citizen
“Small Change takes real risks and is an idiosyncratic and bitterly intelligent collection of stories. It is also, paradoxically, both timeless and as fresh as new paint.” —Elisabeth Harvor
“Hay brings together in [Small Change] the revelatory power of narrative, the analytical possibilities of the personal essay and memoir, the investigative discipline of journalism, and the sudden illumination of lyric, and as a result she seems able to pick up almost everything—everything said, and most of what is only whispered in a gesture or a look between friends. . . . Endlessly rewarding. . . . These stories are beautifully written and carefully honed.” —The Malahat Review
“Stories that capture those details, moments, that someone less observant, less sensitive would miss. Language that flows as easily as water.” —Jury Citation, Governor General’s Literary Awards
“Captivating. . . . Fluid, evanescent, rarely in balance, the friendships recounted in these stories are everything but peaceful.” —Toronto Star
“Hay knows how to make a line breathe, and it’s possible to open the book at random to find sharp, almost electric, prose leap out and give off light. . . . Through sparkling prose, Hay is able to flesh out the quirky and individual gestures that make out relationships. . . .” —Ottawa XPress
“One of Canada’s premier writers. . . .” —Canadian Forum Expand reviews
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