This Unlikely Soil

By Andrea Routley

Book Overview

In This Unlikely Soil , prize-winning writer Andrea Routley delivers stories of queer women navigating love and life against the lush, isolated backdrop of Canada's West Coast. A dog that bites, a bear suffering from a hemorrhoid, an aggressive willow tree, berried-up Dungeness crabs and erotic mussels... The dense West-Coast landscape of This Unlikely Soil echoes the fraught search for connection of the rural-dwelling queer characters in this quintet of novellas. Finalist for the Malahat Review Novella Prize, this sophomore collection from Lambda Literary Award-finalist Andrea Routley explores the queer state of wandering, violence, and loss with surprising humour and compassion.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1773860984
• ISBN13: 9781773860985
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Caitlin Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 7.7"