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“Simultaneously prose poem and page-turner, Nightshade draws us into the lives of its characters. Readers will come to love fragile Liza-May, who tends to ill and injured birds, feisty Lilly, who stands up to injustice, and protagonist Zelda.”—Ursula Pflug, author of Mountain
“Nightshade gives a very rare and precious insight into a Romany family and community, their language and history; and I for one am so grateful it has been written.”—Frances Roberts Reilly, author of Parramisha: A Romani Poetry Collection
“A compelling story of strong women, the snares of wealth, and what happens when the puppeteers themselves find they are no longer the ones pulling the strings.”—@anuja-v.bsky.social, award-winning author of Chrysalis
“The prose is sensuous and exact, the folklore alive, the politics unflinching. This is a novel about work and hunger, inheritance and passing, and the thin veil between rescue and trap. I’ll be pressing it into many hands.”—Oksana Marafioti, author of American Gypsy: A Memoir
“Amid an entrancing undertow of natural beauty and seductive materialism, Nightshade is a story about identity, longing, and a unique cultural heritage.”—Foreword Reviews
“A gorgeous, swirling story about family and heritage and temptation in this novel.”—Manda Barker, @ravenbookstore.bsky.social
📣 Nightshade is here! 📣
Happy pub day to the amazing @lynnhutchinsonlee.bsky.social and Nightshade—we love this novel, and we hope you will too!
Get a copy from your favourite bookstore or library branch today! 📚
Grateful for this careful read of Field Work by JM of @theampersandreview.bsky.social
"Forbes weaves fact, analysis, and association into an elegant discourse"
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some great buzz about DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY (available for pre-order from @pressassembly.bsky.social : assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w...)
Misha Solomon, My Great-Grandfather Danced Ballet / @mishasolomon.bsky.social @pressassembly.bsky.social ;
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I am very lucky to have already read an early draft of Meaghan's new book - it's all killer, no filler.
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📣 Coming May 2026 📣 Mom Camp by Véronique Darwin
Available for preorder through bookstores and libraries and direct from our site: assemblypress.ca/shop/mom-camp
“The lagoon in February is a plate of bubbled glass, with twigs, sandwich wrappers, and plastic bags trapped in the ice”
Happy Groundhog Day! Relative to Wind is on sale today only to try to manifest both an early spring and early start to boating season! assemblypress.ca/shop/relativ...
Lovely to see @quillandquire.bsky.social include DO IT WRONG in their spring 2026 previews: quillandquire.com/omni/2026-sp...
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📣 Coming April 2026 📣 Do It Wrong by @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social
is a radically liberating collection of essays, ideas, and approaches to writing and teaching poetry.
Preorder your copy now from us, your fav book shop, or request it from your library! 📚
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DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21st CENTURY is now available for pre-order from @pressassembly.bsky.social : assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w... DO IT WRONG foregrounds sharing, equity, community support, collaboration, and free education. Read up and change the world!
Acclaimed poet Dani Netherclift tries to capture the shape of absent bodies in VESSEL (@pressassembly.bsky.social), a new and form-bending work of memoir. We interview the author right here on Open Book!
#AmReading #Memoir #Nonfiction #Translation
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Happy North American pub day to @dani-netherclift.bsky.social and the long and gorgeous essay that is Vessel!
“Lyrical and allusive, Vessel is a memoir about a personal tragedy and a moving meditation on what remains of the dead.”—starred review, Foreword Reviews
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I cannot recommend this amazing elegiac lyric essay enough. @dani-netherclift.bsky.social is a stunning writer (and person) 🧡🧡🧡
Canadian Poets Series #17 : Melanie Dennis Unrau / @pressassembly.bsky.social ;
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Lynn Hutchinson Lee is of Anglo-Romany descent on her father’s side, and with Nightshade, she tells a story inspired by the women of her family and the hand-built puppets that accompanied them on their travels to North America.
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📣 Coming March 2026 📣 Nightshade by Lynn Hutchinson Lee is a gorgeous, Gothic coming-of-age novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s Southern Ontario tobacco belt.
Available for preorder now from our very own website or your fav place to buy books.
DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21st CENTURY is now available for pre-order from @pressassembly.bsky.social : assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w...
DO IT WRONG foregrounds sharing, equity, community support, collaboration, and free education. Read up and change the world!
📣 Coming January 2026 📣 Vessel: The Shape of Absent Bodies by @dani-netherclift.bsky.social is a lyric bricolage of memoir, image, literature, history, and translation that wrestles with the shape death takes.
Add this one to your new-year book stack! 📚
Book cover for The Immortal Woman by Su Chang (House of Anansi): Lemei, once a student Red Guard leader in 1960s Shanghai and a journalist at a state newspaper, was involved in a brutal act of violence during the Tiananmen Square protests and lost all hope for her country. Her daughter, Lin, is a student at an American university on a mission to become a true Westerner. She tirelessly erases her birth identity, abandons her Chinese suitor, and pursues a white lover, all the while haunted by the scars of her upbringing. Following China’s meteoric rise, Lemei is slowly dragged into a nationalistic perspective that stuns Lin. Their final confrontation results in tragic consequences, but ultimately, offers hope for a better future. By turns wry and lyrical, The Immortal Woman reminds us to hold tight to our humanity at any cost. https://houseofanansi.com/products/the-immortal-woman
Book cover for The Road Between Us by Bindu Suresh (Assembly Press): Estela, a lawyer, struggles professionally after a deep childhood loss and an ill-advised undergraduate dalliance. Ash is a diplomat posted to Buenos Aires and Beijing who wants what he can’t have. Ophélie, a nurse, makes a grievous medical error that alters the course of her life. And Roman is an academic whose careless sexual escapades after a painful divorce lead to even more painful consequences. Tense, poetic, and as binge-worthy as a miniseries, The Road Between Us explores why we make the decisions we do, and how those decisions affect the people we love. https://assemblypress.ca/shop/road-between-us
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: The Immortal Woman (Su Chang @houseofanansi.bsky.social): houseofanansi.com/products/the... & The Road Between Us (Bindu Suresh @pressassembly.bsky.social): assemblypress.ca/shop/road-be... See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #booklovers
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pantone’s color of the year is books
Three book covers against a dark peach brown background with poinsetta flowers at one end, labeled CANADIAN FICTION. The books are: Gary Baldwin's Scandal at the Alphorn Factory: New and Selected Short Fiction 2024-1984 (labeled FOR SURREALISTS), Bindu Suresh's The Road Between Us (labeled FOR GLOBETROTTERS), and Ken Murray's novel Eulogy (labeled FOR BLACK SHEEP).
4/4 Fine print: Canadian orders only, free titles are dealer’s choice, the more books you order, the more books you get for free, they reserve the right to dial this back if it gets out of hand. Sale runs Dec 1 - 19.
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Three book covers against a mint green background with poinsetta flowers at opposite end, labeled POETRY. The books are: Kevin Stebner's inherent (labeled FOR DESIGN ENTHUSIASTS), Dag T. Straumsvag's The Mountains of Kong: New & Selected Prose Poems, translated by Robert Medin and the author (labeled FOR LINGUAPHILES), and Melanie Dennis Unrau's Goose (labeled FOR AMATEUR ARCHIVISTS).
3/4 Get 1 Assembly book at assemblypress.ca/shop or 1 Brick book at www.brickbooks.ca & you’ll get 1 free book from the other publisher! Canadians only.
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Four book covers against a rust brown background with poinsetta flowers at one end, labeled CANADIAN NONFICTION. The books are: Eric McLuhan's The Sensus Communis, Synesthesia, and the Soul (labeled FOR PHILOSOPHERS), Andrew Forbes' Field Work (labeled FOR BASEBALL LOVERS), Sarah Selecky's Story is a State of Mind (labeled FOR WRITERS), and Phoebe Wang's Relative to Wind (labeled FOR SPORTY CREATIVES).
2/4 Images stolen from their email, obvs. Get 1 Assembly book at assemblypress.ca/shop or 1 Brick book at www.brickbooks.ca & you’ll get 1 free book from the other publisher! Cdns only.
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