A Face Like the Moon

Stories

By (author) Mina Athanassious
Categories: Fiction: general and literary, Fiction and Related items
Publisher: Mosaic Press
Paperback : 9781771613392, 184 pages, September 2018

Description

A remarkable debut from Canadian-Coptic writer, Mina Athanassious, who takes readers into the heartbreaking world of Coptic children coming of age in Egypt. “All Good Things Thrown Away” delves into Egypt’s notorious Garbage City and the lives of Cairo’s garbage collectors. The title story moves to a small remote village in southern Egypt where a ten-year-old boy struggles with a family tragedy. A Face Like the Moon marks a bold and original new voice in Canadian fiction. To learn more about this publisher, click here: http://bit. ly/2lVGQwI

Reviews

"Athanassious is quite intentionally panoramic, sharing with the reader the sights and sounds and smells of youth in a range of circumstances. ..[A] collection [that] neatly demonstrate[s] how the borders of the world can at times seem expansive and, at others, paralyzingly small. " —Shawn Syms, Quill & Quire