Waiting for Joe

Sandra Birdsell
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Sandra Birdsell
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CANADIAN288 PAGESENGLISH

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  • Published date: Sep 13, 2011
  • Language: English
  • No. of Pages: 288
  • Publisher: Random House of Canada
  • ISBN: 9780307359179
  • Dimensions: 5.1" W x 0.75" L x 7.9" H
SANDRA BIRDSELL, CM, is an award-winning Canadian novelist and short story writer of Métis and Mennonite heritage. She is the author of The Missing Child, winner of the Books in Canada First Novel Award; The Chrome Suite, shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction; The Rüsslander, shortlisted for the Giller Prize and winner of the Saskatchewan Book of the Year for Fiction; Children of the Day, longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award and winner of the Saskatchewan Best Fiction Award; and Waiting for Joe, shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English Fiction. She is also the author of short story collections, including Night Travellers and The Two-Headed Calf, as well as scripts for television, theatre, and radio. In 2010, Birdsell was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada and in 2012 was invested with the Saskatchewan Order of Merit.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD FOR ENGLISH FICTION
WINNER OF THE SASKATCHEWAN BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION
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Praise for Waiting for Joe and Sandra Birdsell

"This is Birdsell's best novel to date. . . . Brilliant."
—Toronto Star

"A chilling critique of the heartland values the author knows so well. . . . Waiting for Joe is 100-percent genuine, bone-chilling Canadiana."
The Globe and Mail

“Birdsell is one of our best writers—no compromises, no hesitance, a full canvas.”
Michael Ondaatje

Waiting for Joe stirs us to wonder who is waiting for us to change, move on or come home to a spiritual rest. Though close to the world of Flannery O’Connor, it is in its own special universe, the Birdsell landscape of the human heart.”
—Winnipeg Free Press

“Powerful and compassionate.”
—Central Plains Herald Leader

“Sandra Birdsell explores human beings with intelligence, sensitivity and wit. And there’s a wonderful clarity to her stories that fixes them in the mind and makes the imagination return to them.”
—Calgary Herald

“In fiction what I long for is a sense of the stories being alive—all hot, rude, contrary, funny, unbearable. You don’t get that nearly often enough, but in Sandra Birdsell’s work you do get it over and over again, and she has the energy, the faith, the skill, to make her stories overwhelm us.”
—Alice Munro

“Deeply moving. . . . Birdsell draws . . . lives with vivid detail, suspense and sensitivity, creating a narrative that forces readers to keep turning the pages to find out how all the characters sort out their individual sense of ‘enough.’”
Edmonton Journal

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