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Caroline Adderson


Canada (b.1963)

Caroline Adderson is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, she studied at the University of British Columbia, receiving a degree in education in 1982. Her first short story collection, Bad Imaginings (1993) was nominated for the Governor General's Award and won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her second novel, Sitting Practice (2003), also won the award.
 
 
New and upcoming books
September 2024

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A Way to Be Happy
 
Series
Jasper John Dooley
   1. Star of the Week (2012)
   2. Left Behind (2013)
   3. Not in Love (2014)
   4. You're in Trouble (2015)
   5. Lost and Found (2015)
   6. Public Library Enemy 1 (2016)
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Izzy
   1. Izzy in the Doghouse (2020)
   2. Izzy's Tail of Trouble (2022)
   3. Izzy's Dog Days of Summer (2023)
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Novels
   A History of Forgetting (1999)
   Sitting Practice (2003)
   The Sky Is Falling (2010)
   The Middle of Nowhere (2012)
   A Simple Case of Angels (2014)
   Ellen In Pieces (2014)
   A Russian Sister (2020)
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Collections
   Bad Imaginings (1993)
   Pleased to Meet You (2006)
   Sunny Days Inside (2021)
   A Way to Be Happy (2024)
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Novellas and Short Stories
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Anthologies edited
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Series contributed to
 
FPQ
   1. Complete Collection 1 (2011) (with others)
   3. FPQ 3 (2011) (with others)
   3. Obscure Objects (2011)
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Picture Books show
 
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Caroline Adderson recommends
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The Singing Forest (2021)
Judith McCormack
"In this hypnotically layered novel, a young Jewish lawyer, Leah Jarvis, is assigned the case of Stefan Drozd, a nonagenarian war criminal facing deportation for acts he committed as a minor in Belarus. McCormack treats her characters with unnerving fairness, balancing terror with beauty, a brutal childhood with an odd and loving one, and somehow squeezing out of the reader sympathy for Drozd-until horror precludes it. Deeply intelligent and deeply moral, The Singing Forest shows that, like glass, truth is amorphous. It also makes the case that, though 'there is no general duty to rescue' in law, a family might save a child, as it did Leah. Or it may, like Drozd, make a monster of him."

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