Bøker av Darcie Friesen Hossack

A Danuta Gleed finalist and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize, this collection of short stories breaks through the surface of authoritarian religion and families, and into the lives of the women and children often trapped within its constraints.Set on the Canadian prairies, one story follows a young girl into a labyrinth of frozen meat lockers where she becomes trapped by more than just the ice. In another, a son cares for the dying father who ground his childhood to dust.Threaded with moments of both dark humour and unexpected grace, this second edition of Mennonites Don't Dance also contains a new story, not included in the original.

When Lizzy is forced to move to the Adventist commune of Stillwater, she is sure the end times have begun. She's not wrong. As Covid-19 upends society, sixteen-year-old Lizzy is trapped between her passion for science and the conspiracy theories embraced by her Seventh-day Adventist father and Mennonite mother. But she isn't the only one in crisis. Her father, a nurse, is opposed to vaccines--the perfect excuse to relocate his injured, secretly drug-addicted wife and two children to a strict SDA commune in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley. Once at Stillwater, Lizzy struggles to curb her tongue and adapt to a rigid ideology without abandoning her education. But a new threat forces her to flee with her younger brother and reluctant mother to a place where old resentments and buried history will provoke a day of judgement for the whole family.