{"product_id":"small-change-isbn-9780771037917","title":"Small Change","description":"These 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.“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 \u003ci\u003eGazette\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “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.” —\u003ci\u003eOttawa Citizen\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eSmall Change\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Hay brings together in [\u003ci\u003eSmall Change\u003c\/i\u003e] 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.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Malahat Review\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Captivating. . . . Fluid,  evanescent, rarely in balance, the friendships recounted in these stories are everything  but peaceful.” —\u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “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. . . .” —\u003ci\u003eOttawa XPress\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “One of Canada’s premier  writers. . . .” —\u003ci\u003eCanadian Forum\u003c\/i\u003eELIZABETH HAY is the Giller Prize-winning author of six novels, including \u003ci\u003eLate Nights on Air\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHis Whole Life\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Student of Weather\u003c\/i\u003e. Her memoir \u003ci\u003eAll Things Consoled\u003c\/i\u003e won the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction; her story collection \u003ci\u003eSmall Change\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Emblem Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303475826917,"sku":"NP9780771037917","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780771037917.jpg?v=1767736786","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/small-change-isbn-9780771037917","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}