•BLACK •BLACK •YELLOW •YELLOW Coach House Books | www.chbooks.com •MAGENTA •MAGENTA 401 Huron St. (rear) on bpNichol Lane Toronto, Ontario, Canada m5s 2g5 Coach House Books | Fall 2009 416 979 2217 | 800 367 6360 | [email protected] •CYAN •CYAN Steal big, steal little Ordering and Distribution Information Here at Coach House Books, we run quite a nice racket, publishing and printing Individuals the finest Canadian literature we can get our purloining paws on. And we’ve You can find Coach House books at your favourite bookstore, or you can visit our website, assembled a whole new gang of books, ready for the next heist. www.chbooks.com, to purchase books by credit card through our secure server. You can call us at 416 979 2217 or 1 800 367 6360 or visit our Factory Outlet at 401 Huron St. (rear) on bpNichol Lane. Last season’s rap sheet was full of success stories. 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Publicist: Evan Munday Poetry Editor: Kevin Connolly In the United States Web Editor: Bill Kennedy Coach House is represented in the us by Technology Intern: Nathan Baker Northwestern University Press / Chicago Distribution Center Orders: General Inquiries: 401 Huron Street (rear) on bpNichol Lane 11030 South Langley Avenue 629 Noyes Street Toronto, Ontario, Canada m5s 2g5 Chicago, il 60628 Evanston, il 60208-4210 phone 416 979 2217 • 1 800 367 6360 • fax 416 977 1158 Phone: 1 800 621 2736 Fax: 1 800 621 8476 Phone: 847 491 2046 Fax: 847 491 8150 [email protected] • www.chbooks.com [email protected] Cover illustration [Burglars and Russian Nesting Dolls, ink on paper, 2009, 16.5 x 22 in.] Coach House Books • 401 Huron St. (rear) on bpNichol Lane, Toronto ONM5S 2G5 by Tamara Garvey 416 979 2217 / 1 800 367 6360 • Fax: 416 977 1158 • [email protected] november nonfiction 1 The Edible City: Toronto’s Food from Farm to Fork edited by Christina Palassio and Alana Wilcox If a city is its people, and its people are what they eat, then shouldn’t food play a larger role in our dialogue about how and where we live? The food of a metropo- lis is essential to its character. Native plants, proximity to farmland, the locations of supermarkets, immigra- tion,therolechefscanandshouldplayinsociety–how a city nourishes itself makes a statement about the kind of city it is. With a cornucopia of essays on comestibles, The Edible City considers how one city eats. It includes dishes on peaches and poverty, on processing plants and public gardens, on rats and bees and bad restau- rantservice,onschnitzelandschoollunches.Thereare incisive studies of food-security policy, of feeding the needyandofwaste,andaveryhappytaleaboutahardy fig tree. Together they form a saucy picture of how Toronto isbn 1 55245 219 0 sustains itself, from growing basil on balconies to four- 978 1 55245 219 6 star restaurants. Dig into The Edible City and get the $24.95 cdn | $22.95 us whole enchilada. 5.5 x 8.5 pb, 360 pages b & w illustrations Praise for Coach House’s Toronto books: urban studies soc026030 ‘One of the most surprising Toronto books ever, the world rights recently published uTOpia: Towards a New Toronto … november 2009 delivers a fresh and energizing view of Toronto’s possi- bilities.’ – Robert Fulford, National Post • promotional seed packages • large Toronto book launch • extensive ad campaign: Spacing, Geist, Eye Weekly, Featuring essays by David Alexander, Bert Archer, Broken Pencil, Torontoist, Steven Biggs, Kathryn Borel, Jamie Bradburn, Andrew TasteTO, blogTO Braithwaite, Kyle Buckley, Laura Burr (with Ilona Burkot and Jane Lac), Kate Carraway, Sasha Chapman, Matthew Church, Liz Clayton, Kevin Connolly, Brendan Cormier, Pamela Cuthbert, Hamutal Dotan, Mark Fram, Katarina Gligorijevic, Chris Hardwicke, Karen Hines, Sarah Hood, Seana Irvine, Lorraine John- son, Iara Lessa, Charles Levkoe and Airin Stephens, John Lorinc, Joshna Maharaj, Jason McBride, Rea McNamara, Shawn Micallef, Amanda Miller, Chris Nuttall-Smith, Darren O’Donnell and Natalie De Vito, Chris Ramsaroop, Wayne Reeves, Wayne Roberts, Cecilia Rocha, Damian Rogers, Erik Rutherford, Jae Steele,BenStimpson,BronwynUnderhill,RMVaughan, Gary Wilkins, Mary Williamson and Katie Wolk. 2 octoberfiction Lemon a novel by Cordelia Strube Lemon has three mothers: a biological one she’s never met, her adopted father’s suicidal ex and Drew, a school principal who hasn’t left the house since she was stabbed by a student. She has one deadbeat dad, one young cancer-riddled protégé and two friends: the school tramp and a depressed poet. Figuring the numbers are against her, Lemon just can’t be bothered trying to fit in. She spurns fashion, television and even the mall. She reads Mary Woll- stonecraft and gets pissed off that Jane Eyre is such a wimp. Meanwhile, the adults in her life are all mired in self-centredness and the other kids are getting high, pummelling each other in parks and trying to outsex one another. High school is misery, a trial run for an unhappy adulthood of bloated waistlines, bad sex, contradictions and inequities, and nothing guidance isbn 1 55245 220 4 counsellor Blecher says will convince Lemon otherwise. 978 1 55245 220 2 But making the choice to opt out of sex and violence $19.95 cdn | $17.95 us and cancer and disappointment doesn’t mean that 5x8pb,260pages these things don’t find you. It will be up to Lemon fiction to see if she can survive them with her usual irrepress- fic000000 ible aplomb. world rights october 2009 Praise for Cordelia Strube’s previous books: ‘Smart, eccentric prose.’ – The New York Times • promotional postcards ‘Strube has a powerful way of dragging the reader right • author appearances: into her characters’ heads … The story is told with such Montreal, Toronto, humour and suspense that it’s hard to put down … She Winnipeg, Calgary, picks diamonds out of the ashes.’ – Globe and Mail Windsor, Oakville, Guelph, Hamilton ‘Oftenwittyandpointedlyobservantinthefaceofpain • print ads: and adversity.’ – New York Newsday Quill & Quire, Geist, Broken Pencil, Matrix cordelia strube is an accomplished playwright and the author of seven novels. Her first novel, Alex and Zee, was shortlisted for the W.H. Smith/BooksinCanadaFirst Novel Award, and Teaching Pigs to Sing was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award and a recipient of a TorontoArts Protégé Award.