The Slow Burn That Is The Selves

This summer Sonja accurately described her books as a slow burn, and was she right. This book came out in May, and has ended the year as a top pick in Canadian Art and they spotlight the book to a T: Ahlers’ compositions are at once delicate, familiar, strange and painful. They delve deep into the interior lives of women and consider the relationship between female fantasy and identity.

Sean Cranbury states on the advent book blog: Elegant, inspired, poetic and innovative, The Selves is the best book published by a Canadian press in 2010. I think a "damn!" is in order on both accounts.

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