Shallow Enough to Walk Through
- Publisher
- NeWest Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2013
- Category
- Contemporary Women, Family Life, Literary
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781927063422
- Publish Date
- Oct 2013
- List Price
- $17.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781927063439
- Publish Date
- Oct 2013
- List Price
- $11.99
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Description
"Three weeks it's been raining, but no puddles..."
Author Sara Pierce is slowly drowning in Windsor, a city where rain will seemingly not stay put long enough to form puddles. While living with her germophobic best friend Angie and dealing with her online gaming-addicted boyfriend Dan, Sara finds herself compulsively writing and rewriting her own story in order to gain some sense of control over her own life.
Shallow Enough to Walk Through is a portrait of an artist as a young woman confined to a world she wouldn't have written for herself. Marissa Reaume's playful debut is a novel in the process of its own creation, taking us into the mind of Sara, a young writer struggling to construct her own happy ending.
About the author
A lifelong native of Windsor, Ontario, MARISSA REAUME is an instructor at the University of Windsor, St. Clair College and Algonquin College in Ottawa. She been published in The Windsor Review, The Lance, Full Circle and Generation. Shallow Enough to Walk Through is her first novel.
Excerpt: Shallow Enough to Walk Through (by (author) Marissa Reaume)
Three weeks it's been raining, but no puddles. No pools of murky water hiding pennies thrown from car windows, pebbles kicked along uneven pavement, bottle caps from a weekend party. Only a round seashell with the word F L O R I D A painted on its googly eyed face and a magnet glued to its back. I found it last night in a crack of cement next to the curb while taking out the garbage. I was going to leave it in its concrete grave but it stuck to my finger. Now on the fridge, it's holding up a picture of Dan and me from Angie and Luke's wedding. Some of its magnetic force may have remained in my finger, which has a strong attraction to my backspace key. I erase everything I write.
Editorial Reviews
Praise for Shallow Enough to Walk Through:
"Shallow Enough to Walk Through overflows with quirky characters: little sisters who toy with Bunsen burners, married friends who eye-sex strangers, boyfriends who wear plaid pajamas in public, and computer companies that morph into character clichés. A gratifying debut novel."
~ Nicole Markotić, author of Bent at the Spine
"As delicious as chocolate hair; as bittersweet as the rain inside you; as mysterious as struck out text, Shallow Enough to Walk Through delivers sensory pleasure on every page. With an eye for what's unfamiliar in the everyday, Marissa Reaume writes/rewrites the city of Windsor and its inmates/inhabitants into a compelling read that is both funny odd and funny ha-ha."
~ D.M. Bryan, author of Gerbil Mother
"This was a strong debut from Marissa Reaume, perfect for readers who are looking for reads on the cusp between young adult and adult fiction, and I'm very interested to see what she comes up with in the future."
~ Reading in Winter
"This debut novel clearly documents author Marissa Reaume's genuine talent for deftly crafted characters and nicely woven plots."
~ Midwest Book Review