Write Back Now!

By Lisa Fishman

Acclaimed poet Lisa Fishman's debut novel tracks a peripatetic 1970s childhood and the uprooted friendship between girls who stay connected by mail, until they don't. It opens in a borrowed house in wintry Nova Scotia, where the adult narrator faces the first-ever border closure between her two countries. Framed by these long-separated experiences, the novel keeps almost-beginning again as the narrator tries to figure out where she will be next by figuring out where she has been previously. Along the way, a dead horse, a lost crop, a miscarriage, an extra-tropical cyclone with hurricane-force winds, and more friendships between women emerge. Write Back Now explores the tensions between experience and loss, imagination and memory, the real and the absurd.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 177849062X
• ISBN13: 9781778490620
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Guernica Editions
• Length: 200 Pages