By Marcus Youssef
Foreword by Dennis Foon
Winner 2013 Best New Text, Montreal English Language Theatre Awards
Winner 2019 IKARUS Prize
Fatima and her friends call themselves the “jabbers,” because they wear hijab. But when anti-Muslim graffiti appears on the walls of Fatima’s school, Fatima’s parents force her to transfer to a new school. In an unfamiliar environment where none of her peers share the Egyptian-born teen’s background, Fatima starts an…
$16.95 | 80 pages | Pub. Date: 2015
5.5 W × 8.5 H × 1 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889229501
| Rights: WORLD
By Michael Cook
A Maritime family’s tragedy, set in a raging storm. Cast of 2 women and 5 men.
$17.95 | 144 pages | Pub. Date: 1975
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.35 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889220973
| Rights: WORLD
By Lorena Gale
This powerful dramatic monologue reconstructs Lorena Gale’s coming of age as an African Canadian in Montreal. Cast of 1 woman.
$15.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2001
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.25 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889224537
| Rights: WORLD
By David Fennario
Desperately poor immigrants find refuge with Montreal’s legendary barkeep, Joe Beef. Cast of 5 women and 5 men.
$16.95 | 104 pages | Pub. Date: 1991
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.30000000000000004 D inches
Drama | Backlist
| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889222915
| Rights: WORLD
By Lise Tremblay
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
In this coming-of-age novel, Lise Tremblay paints a picture of rural Quebec in the years following the Quiet Revolution in her signature style so refreshingly free of artifice and literary hyperbole.
$14.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 2011
5.50 W × 8.50 H × 0.35 D inches
Fiction | Backlist
| Bisac: FIC019000
ISBN 13: 9780889226777
| Rights: WORLD
By Danielle LaFrance
In JUST LIKE I LIKE IT, Danielle LaFrance combines poetry and autotheory as a means of targeting ideological infatuation, spilling into an obsession with ideological abolishment. JUST LIKE I LIKE IT searches for ways to kill and abolish “it,” seeking means to get it done right, even when attempted slowly…
$16.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 2019
9 W × 6 H × .75 D inches
Poetry | Backlist
| Bisac: POE024000
ISBN 13: 9781772012347
| Rights: WORLD
By Roy Miki & Cassandra Kobayashi
How a community brought the issue of redress for the injustices of the 1940s to the forefront of public debate.
$29.95 | 160 pages | Pub. Date: 1991
10.00 W × 11.00 H × 1 D inches
Non-Fiction | Backlist
| Bisac: HIS006000
ISBN 13: 9780889222922
| Rights: WORLD
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