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"Dunic's characters are all different sorts, at all different stages of life, dealing with tragedies, indignities, and other wild cards that cause them to lose their footing. […] all the pieces are beautifully etched thanks to Dunic's flair for the power-packed chiseled sentence. As the widow from whose perspective the story "Youth" is told thinks about the teenagers she has taken to observing, 'There was something pure about them, like elements…hot and bright or dark and cold, sparking off each other, reactive and explosive.' These stories give literary realism a good name."-Kirkus Reviews
Fifteen stories replete with an intimate, nuanced, and quietly profound realism by the Trillium Book Award–winning author of The Clarion
With crisp and penetrating prose, the stories in Suddenly Light are bracing, buoyant, and test the delicate threads that tie us together.
Nina Dunic is a two-time winner of the Toronto Star Short Story Contest, has been longlisted by the CBC Short Story Prize four times, and was nominated for The Journey Prize. CBC Books named Dunic in its 2023 Writers to Watch list. Her debut novel The Clarion won the 2024 Trillium Book Award, was longlisted for the 2023 Giller Prize, was selected as the Best Canadian Debut of 2023 by Apple Books, and was a Globe and Mail Best Book of 2023. Nina lives in Scarborough, ON. Find out more at ninadunic.com.
"Dunic's characters are all different sorts, at all different stages of life, dealing with tragedies, indignities, and other wild cards that cause them to lose their footing. […] all the pieces are beautifully etched thanks to Dunic's flair for the power-packed chiseled sentence. As the widow from whose perspective the story "Youth" is told thinks about the teenagers she has taken to observing, 'There was something pure about them, like elements…hot and bright or dark and cold, sparking off each other, reactive and explosive.' These stories give literary realism a good name."-Kirkus Reviews
Fifteen stories replete with an intimate, nuanced, and quietly profound realism by the Trillium Book Award–winning author of The Clarion
With crisp and penetrating prose, the stories in Suddenly Light are bracing, buoyant, and test the delicate threads that tie us together.
Nina Dunic is a two-time winner of the Toronto Star Short Story Contest, has been longlisted by the CBC Short Story Prize four times, and was nominated for The Journey Prize. CBC Books named Dunic in its 2023 Writers to Watch list. Her debut novel The Clarion won the 2024 Trillium Book Award, was longlisted for the 2023 Giller Prize, was selected as the Best Canadian Debut of 2023 by Apple Books, and was a Globe and Mail Best Book of 2023. Nina lives in Scarborough, ON. Find out more at ninadunic.com.
"Dunic's characters are all different sorts, at all different stages of life, dealing with tragedies, indignities, and other wild cards that cause them to lose their footing. […] all the pieces are beautifully etched thanks to Dunic's flair for the power-packed chiseled sentence. As the widow from whose perspective the story "Youth" is told thinks about the teenagers she has taken to observing, 'There was something pure about them, like elements…hot and bright or dark and cold, sparking off each other, reactive and explosive.' These stories give literary realism a good name."-Kirkus Reviews