<p><b>A vibrant debut story collection about loneliness and love, privilege and poverty, addiction and isolation – the search for connection and meaning in a workaday world.<\/p><\/b><\/p>\n
<p>For fans of Heather O’Neill’s <i>Daydreams of Angels<\/i>, Ottessa Moshfegh’s <i>Homesick for Another World<\/i>, and Carmen Maria Machado’s <i>Her Body and Other Parties<\/i>, <i>Nowadays and Lonelier<\/i> features a cascade of characters seeking connection in the darkest alleyways and meaning in the mundane. In these pages, a ballet dancer navigates complex family ties that are frayed by addiction; a young girl discovers sex and sexuality in the nineties in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside; a lover sojourns in Egypt and exacts an unexpected revenge; and a barista and a painter weather an apartment fire in Montreal. The collection is concerned with the contrast experienced by working- and middle-class millennials, between access to education and art compared to a relative lack of access to secure jobs and housing – and how these conditions leave many straddling a world where mental health, addictions, and sex work are daily realities as they try to carve out space for themselves in times that are increasingly alienating.<\/p><\/p>\n
<p><i>Nowadays and Lonelier<\/i>, Carmella Gray-Cosgrove’s debut story collection, features vivid portraits of unsure yet hopeful people struggling to find a good life in a hard world.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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