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ISBN13: 9781771668569
Publisher: Book*hug Press
Published: Oct 24 2023
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.20 Depth: 7.30
Language: English
Winner of the 2024 Pat Lowther Memorial Award
Winner of the 2024 Lampman Award
Winner of the 2024 Ottawa Book Award - English Fiction Category
Sandra Ridley's latest book offers a breathtaking, harrowing immersion in cruelty behind different veils: the medieval hunt, ecological collapse, and intimate partner violence.
Sparked by a haunting chance encounter with a fox, and told in six chapters of varying form, Vixen is as visceral as it is mysterious, sensuous as it is terrifying.
Thicket introduces us to stalking being akin to hunting; the similar threat of terror and--too often--a violent end. Twitchcraft locates the hunt in the home, the wild in the domestic, while Season of the Haunt explores the unrelenting nature of hunting. Stricken asks common questions that often implicitly justify such violence: Is the harassment 'bad enough' to allow us to label it criminal? Has all control been taken? Is the fear reasonable?
Vixen propels us to examine the nature of empathy, what it means to be a compassionate witness, and what happens when brutality is so ever-present that we become numb. This is a beautiful, difficult, wild tapestry of defiance and survival.
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