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ISBN: 9781926639758
Janette Platana’s cheerfully disturbing, gleefully outraged, and chillingly beautiful stories break open the lives of apparently ordinary people who struggle and sometimes succeed in living without compromise, refusing to sacrifice the world they sense to the world they see, and where things can be true without ever being real. The range of this accomplished and poetic voice may cause vertigo, owing, as it does, as much to the Clash to Stephen King, to Caitlin Moran as to Flannery O’Connor, and something to David Sedaris. A Token of My Affliction will make you laugh while breaking your heart wide open.
“Wild, witty and thought-provoking…”—Michelle Berry, author of Interference
Janette Platana is an author, musician, and filmmaker who lives in Peterborough, Ontario. She won This Magazine‘s 2009 Great Canadian Literary Hunt for her story, “Dear Dave Bidini”.