{"product_id":"what-hurts-going-down-isbn-9780771049033","title":"What Hurts Going Down","description":"\u003cb\u003eA searing exploration of girlhood in the pre- and post- #MeToo eras from the acclaimed novelist.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCBC Best Canadian Poetry of 2020\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat keeps a kind girl alive in the wild? The men in town \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eare crapshoots, sawbucks, coins striking heads and tails. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNancy Lee's searing collection of poems confronts how socially ingrained violence and sexual power dynamics distort and dislocate girlhood, womanhood, and relationships. Startling and visceral, the poems in \u003ci\u003eWhat Hurts Going Down \u003c\/i\u003edeconstruct a lifetime of survival, hover in the uneasy territory of pre- and post- #MeToo, and scrutinize the changing wagers of being female.\u003cb\u003ePraise for Nancy Lee and \u003ci\u003eWhat Hurts Going Down\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Nancy Lee channels a vivid chorus of voices, mostly women at various ages and in a range of situations. Lee probes the assumptions about sexuality and women’s nature shaped by pop culture and social messaging, and she doesn’t hold back. Hard-hitting and incisive, this is a gut-punch of a book.\" --\u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"What Hurts Going Down\u003c\/i\u003e is part history, part plea, and part implied manifesto. It’s not an easy read--it really does hurt going down--but it is an important one for both our moment and the way history will record it.\" --\u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for Nancy Lee and \u003ci\u003eThe Age\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eThe Age\u003c\/i\u003e, Nancy Lee has created a world of contradictions for our times: thoughtful terrorists, naive cynics, children as parents, girls who dream as boys.  In sharply poetic prose, Lee delineates a world of gorgeous horrors and eerie loves.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e —\u003c\/i\u003eAnnabel Lyon, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Sweet Girl\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Nancy Lee and \u003ci\u003eDead Girls\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDead Girls\u003c\/i\u003e is among the bravest fictional debuts in recent memory and heralds the arrival of a bold and audacious new voice in Canadian writing.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e–\u003ci\u003eQuill and Quire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“These are moving and gripping stories – harsh, yet delivered with delicacy and compassion. They are from a young, new writer of conspicuous talent. Read them – and you will wake from a slumber you did not know you were in.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e–Yann Martel, author of \u003ci\u003eLife of Pi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eHailed by the \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e as \"a masterwork of revelation and catharsis,\" Nancy Lee's first book, \u003ci\u003eDead Girls\u003c\/i\u003e was the winner of the VanCity Book Prize, as well as a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, the Pearson Readers' Choice Award, and the Wordsworthy Award. The \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Toronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVancouver Sun\u003c\/i\u003e chose \u003ci\u003eDead Girls\u003c\/i\u003e as one of the best books of the year, and \u003ci\u003eNow \u003c\/i\u003eMagazine named it Book of the Year. The \u003ci\u003eVancouver Sun\u003c\/i\u003e described \u003ci\u003eThe Age\u003c\/i\u003e, Lee's second book, a novel about adolescence, sexual identity, and nuclear war, as \"utterly transfixing.\" Lee's work has been published in the U.K., France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the Netherlands. She has served as Visiting Canadian Fellow for the University of East Anglia, and as Writer-in-Residence for Historic Joy Kogawa House, the City of Richmond and Ville de Vincennes, France. Lee holds the position of Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia and is co-creator of the popular EdX online education series, \"How to Write a Novel.\"Fame\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Coco says, Are you kidding? to the filmmaker who shoots \u003cbr\u003ein the South of France like Godard, who tells her to loosen her \u003cbr\u003eblouse, already I know I will waste years auditioning for the part \u003cbr\u003eof girl-with-potential. A man wants to see how you take direction. \u003cbr\u003eOutside these rooms: parties, parking lots, corridors to empty \u003cbr\u003eelevators. After my first make-out session, the boy’s best friend \u003cbr\u003esays, Next time, make her take her top off. Everyone’s an auteur. \u003cbr\u003eEven Coco, shivering as she eases out of her shirt, hopes this film \u003cbr\u003ewill be, if not art, then artsy. Maybe the next Antonioni is lurking \u003cbr\u003ein the frat house cellar, outside the gym bathroom, in a guest room \u003cbr\u003epiled with coats while his wife serves hot hors d’oeuvres \u003cbr\u003edownstairs.\u003ci\u003e Now take your thumb and put it in your mouth like a \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003elittle schoolgirl.\u003c\/i\u003e Coco knows with the smell of old spunk and stale\u003cbr\u003e refrigerator, the cold against her nipples. Nobody goes to the \u003cbr\u003eSouth of France. 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