A Second Coming
Canadian Migration Fiction
Description
“You will lose yourself in this collection of stories by some of Canada’s most imaginative authors. Each tale takes you to a different place (physical or psychological) that is both familiar and strange. ” – Joseph Pivato, Professor Emeritus, Athabasca University
Migration stories are an essential component of Canada’s historical-literary continuum; we need to know of such writings to rationalize about who Canadians really were, are, and may become in time, and where we are from and how we got here. Aren’t we all the children of migration? These short-fiction stories tell much about migration and Canada in ways that are funny, ribald, tragic, or contemplative—and never dull.
Reviews
Highly engaged reflections on language, translation, and identity.
- Canadian Literature A Quarterly of Criticism and Review
You will lose yourself in this collection of stories by some of Canada's most imaginative authors. Each tale takes you to a different place (physical or psychological) that is both familiar and strange. Some writers reflect their own ethnic origins as they examine the universal human experience of migration.
- Joseph Pivato, Professor Emeritus, Athabasca University
These stories vividly capture a running theme of this anthology: that there is an emotional and sometimes physical consequence for emigrating, for leaving behind the familiar home country.
- Montreal Serai