HOUSE OF ANANSI SPRING 2014 TITLES NONFICTION ... 1 FICTION ... 17 BOOK CLUB EDITIONS ... 24 ASTORIA (SHORT FICTION) ... 27 ARACHNIDE (TRANSLATION) ... 31 ANANSI INTERNATIONAL ... 37 SPIDERLINE ... 43 POETRY ... 51 GRANTA & PORTOBELLO ... 59 SALES INFORMATION ... 72 WWW.HOUSEOFANANSI.COM AT WWW.HOUSEOFANANSI.COM YOU CAN: • Find books by interest, genre, curriculum, • Read bios, watch videos, and see links to popularity, age, and audience author websites, blogs, and Twitter feeds • Preview sample chapters, and sample spreads • Access teaching guides, curriculum links, for illustrated works key industry reviews, and award details • Take advantage of our one-click shopping • Download reading guides cart • Enter contests • Buy e-book editions directly from us • Connect to our blog and social networking • Start a wish list and send it to a friend pages • Submit your own review and read other user • Sign up for newsletters reviews • Add books to Goodreads, Shelfari, and Librar yTh i ng NONFICTION MonthJanuary TITLE THE FOUR WALLS OF MY FREEDOM LessonsSubtitle I’ve Learned From a Life of Caregiving AUTHOR NAME DONNA THOMSON FOREWORD BY JOHN RALSTON SAUL Lead“A clear-eyed quote — look credit at the value of a life . What if a life was not judged by its monetary worth or possible economic benefits to society, but as a series of com- plex and rewarding relationships?” — Elizabeth Renzetti, Globe and Mail A riveting and redemptive family mem- oir, The Four Walls of My Freedom is Donna Thom- son’s account of raising a son with cerebral palsy and a passionate appeal to change the way we think about “the good life.” Donna Thomson’s life was forever changed when her son Nicholas was born with cerebral pal- sy. A former actor, director, and teacher, Donna became his primary caregiver and embarked on a second career as a disability activist, author, and consultant. Thomson vividly describes her experience in treading delicately through daily care, emergencies, and medical bureaucracy as she and her family cope with her son’s condition while maintaining value and dignity (for Nicholas, too). She brilliantly dem- onstrates the vital contribution that people with disabilities make to our society and addresses the ethics and economics of giving and receiving care — much of which she applies to eldercare and our aging society. Featuring a foreword by John Ralston Saul, and two new chapters, The Four Walls of My Freedom is a passionate appeal to change the way we think about the “good life” that will touch anyone caring for the FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / lives of another. Children with Special Needs 978-1-77089-479-2 5.25 x 8.5 • 288 pages Trade paperback • $19.95 978-1-77089-480-8 ePub • $16.95 MARKETING NOTES BISAC: FAM012000 2 2 Month TITLE Subtitle AUTHOR NAME Lead quote —DONNA credit THOMSON began PRAISE FOR DONNA THOMSON AND her career as an actor, director, THE FOUR WALLS OF MY FREEDOM: and teacher. But in 1988, when her son Nicholas was born “A wonderful book which is inspiring, informative, with severe disabilities, Donna and deeply encouraging.” embarked on her second career — Nobel Prize–winning economist Amartya Sen as a disability activist, author, and consultant. She is married to James Wright, “I am deeply moved by this book. It is about being the former High Commissioner for Canada in the human, finding wisdom, and learning to live in the U.K. Their previous postings have been in London, face of pain. It is about seeing under the suffering Washington, DC, and Moscow. Donna and Jim and the needs of people with disabilities, their val- have two children and live in Ottawa, Canada. ue and beauty, their uniqueness, and dignity. This book should be read by all who seek to understand what it means to be human.” — Jean Vanier, founder of L’Arche “An honest, intelligent account of raising a son born with cerebral palsy, describing a journey through motherhood where regular road maps don’t apply. Loaded with info and insight, this book will reso- MARKETING NOTES nate with those in a similar situation.” — Canadian Living • National media mailing • National advertising “A thoughtful and thought-provoking book . It • Author on speakers tour raises some important questions about the funda- • Author has a website: mental obligations of the state to provide for its most http://www.donnathomson.com, and is active on vulnerable citizens.” — Literary Review of Canada Twitter @Thomsod • Co-op available MARKETING NOTES 3 3 MonthFebruary ARETITLE MEN OBSOLETE? TheSubtitle Munk Debate on Gender HANNAAUTHOR ROSIN NAME & MAUREEN DOWD (PRO) VS. CAITLIN MORAN & CAMILLE PAGLIA (CON) Lead“Feminism quote was— credit always wrong to pretend women could ‘have it all.’ It is not male society but Mother Nature who lays the heaviest burden on women.” — Camille Paglia For the firsttime in history, will it be bet- ter to be a woman than a man in the upcoming cen- tury? The twelfth semi-annual Munk Debate pits Hanna Rosin and Maureen Dowd against Caitlin Moran and Camille Paglia to debate the relative decline of the power and status of men in the work- place, in the family, and society at large. Men have traditionally been the dominant sex. But now, for the first time, a host of indicators sug- gest that women not only are achieving equality with men, but are fast emerging as the more suc- cessful sex of the species. Whether in education, employment, personal health, or child rearing, statistics point to a rise in the status and power of women at home, in the workplace, and in tradition- al male bastions such as politics. But are men, and the age-old power structures associated with “male- ness,” permanently in decline? In this edition of the Munk Debates — Canada’s premier debate series — renowned author and editor Hanna Rosin and Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist Maureen Dowd square off against New York Times bestselling author Caitlin Moran and academic trailblazer Camille Paglia to debate the future of men. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies With women increasingly demonstrating their 978-1-77089-451-8 ability to “have it all” while men lag behind, the 5 x 8 • 104 pages Munk Debate on gender tackles the essential socio- Trade paperback • $14.95 economic question: Are men obsolete? 978-1-77089-452-5 ePub • $12.95 MARKETING NOTES BISAC: SOC028000 4 4 Month TITLE Subtitle AUTHOR NAME LeadHANNA quote ROSIN — iscredit the author of the definitive ALSO AVAILABLE book on the decline of men and maleness in mod- ern society, The End of Men. She is a senior editor CAN THE WORLD TOLERATE AN IRAN at The Atlantic and has written for The New Yorker, WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS? the New York Times, GQ, The New Republic, and the The Munk Debate on Iran Washington Post. Amos Yadlin & Charles Krauthammer vs. Fareed Zakaria & Vali Nasr MAUREEN DOWD is the author of a hard- 978-1-77089-236-1 Paperback / $14.95 hitting New York Times weekly column on politics 978-1-77089-237-8 ePub / $12.95 and culture. She has received the Pulitzer Prize for HAS THE EUROPEAN distinguished commentary and is the author of the EXPERIMENT FAILED? bestselling book, Are Men Necessary? She is regularly The Munk Debate on Europe ranked among the top one hundred public intellec- Niall Ferguson & Josef Joffe vs. tuals in America. Daniel Cohn-Bendit & Peter Mandelson 978-1-77089-228-6 Paperback / $14.95 CAITLIN MORAN is a British broadcaster, TV 978-1-77089-229-3 ePub / $12.95 critic, and writer for the Times of London. Named NORTH AMERICA’S LOST DECADE? Columnist of the Year in 2010 and both Critic The Munk Debate on the North and Interviewer of the Year in 2011 by the British American Economy Awards, she is the author of the international best- Paul Krugman & David Rosenberg vs. seller How to Be a Woman. Lawrence Summers & Ian Bremmer 978-1-77089-200-2 Paperback / $14.95 CAMILLE PAGLIA has been recognized as one 978-1-77089-201-9 ePub / $12.95 of the world’s top one hundred public intellectu- DOES THE 21ST CENTURY als by Foreign Policy and Prospect. Her book Sexual BELONG TO CHINA? Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily The Munk Debate on China Dickinson is considered an iconic work of literary Dr. Henry Kissinger & Fareed Zakaria vs. criticism. David Daokui Li & Niall Ferguson 978-1-77089-062-6 Paperback / $14.95 978-1-77089-063-3 ePub / $12.95 MARKETING NOTES HITCHENS VS. BLAIR Be It Resolved Religion Is a Force for • National media mailing Good in the World • Co-op available Christopher Hitchens vs. Tony Blair 978-1-77089-008-4 Paperback / $14.95 978-1-77089-020-6 ePub / $12.95 MARKETING NOTES 5 5 MonthApril EVERYTITLE OBJECT HAS A STORY 21Subtitle Writers, 21 Objects, and 100 Years at the ROM AUTHOR NAME LeadIn celebration quote — ofcredit the ROM’s centennial, twenty-one Canadian writers, in- cluding Joseph Boyden, Dionne Brand, and Lawrence Hill, share their per- sonal connections to twenty-one objects in the Museum’s collection. For the past ninety-nine years, the Royal Ontario Museum has introduced its visitors to ob- jects from all corners of the globe. In celebration of the Museum’s centennial, twenty-one Canadian writers, painters, filmmakers — even an astronaut — share their personal connections with a unique object from the Museum’s collection in this extra- ordinary volume. Read bestselling author and anthropologist Wade Davis’s insights about the Hudson Strait Kayak, the presence of the Shiva Nataraja in award- winning filmmaker Deepa Mehta’s household, or astronaut Chris Hadfield’s thoughts on a very rare type of meteorite, the largest of its kind ever found in Canada, and more.