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Oh, My Darling
“Shaena Lambert’s stories are jubilant, ironic, bone-marrow intimate and hyper-vivid. Her characters are drawn with signature accuracy and exuberance; they are bold and unfaithful, zealous and brave, fearful and true. OH, MY DARLING is fist-pump marvellous. Lambert will take your heart captive.”
-Lisa Moore, author of February
“OH, MY DARLING is thunderstorm powerful, otherworldly, wickedly great. It lies beyond the range of merely astonishing. Shaena Lambert travels so deeply into the raw and beautiful reservoirs of humanity that it seems a marvel she ever made it back out. That she did is our most excellent fortune. Read this book. Read this book.”
-Rick Bass, author of The Watch and All the Land That Holds Us
“Exceptional stories. A Joy to read. Lambert’s language and characters shine on every page.”
-Barbara Gowdy
A love cry for the complexity of life, these compelling stories work to illuminate the exaltation and heartbreak of love, and the vagaries of family life.
Ten remarkable stories about contemporary life, family, children and love. They circle loosely around the love cry of the title story: the exaltation and heartbreak, the subtle acts of revenge and the moments of revelation that make up relationships.
The stories include a woman’s breast cancer who speaks to her in a mesmerizing and sadistic voice about her dysfunctional life; a couple who plan an environmental protest by placing the husband inside a cage in front of an aquarium; a woman who gets embroiled with a young drug dealer, as she tries to understand her son’s addiction a young boy who tries to deal with his father’s Nazi past on a Caribbean island; an old man who obsesses over the size of his coffin and whether he can be transported in it down his narrow apartment stairs; and a couple who uncover their secret fate at the Delphic Oracle in Greece.
Passionate and precise, these stories are infused with an uncommon originality. This is writing of the very first order by one of Canada’s best writers.
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- HarperCollins, Canada, September 2013
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Praise for Radiance
“It must be something in the water over there, but Canadian women writers are a remarkable breed... names like Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood and Carol Shields offer a guarantee of a good story well told. And now there's a new name to add to the pantheon: Shaena Lambert.”
-The Sunday Independent, UK
Praise for The Falling Woman
“A marvelous first story collection…remarkable for its mature craft, polished material and dark vision.”
-The Toronto Star
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Shaena Lambert’s stories have appeared in The Walrus, Zoetrope: All Story, Ploughshares, and been chosen three years running for Best Canadian Stories. Her first book of stories, The Falling Woman, was a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year, was nominated for the Danuta Gleed Award, and published in Canada, the UK and Germany. Her novel, Radiance, was published in Canada and the UK and met with widespread critical acclaim in Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Radiance was a finalist for the Rogers Writers Trust Award, the Ethel Wilson Prize, and the Ontario Evergreen Award, as well as being a Top 100 book in the Globe and Mail, Quill and Quire and New Zealand Star-Herald. She has been a fiction mentor with Humber College and The Writers’ Studio of Simon Fraser University, and studied fiction with Margaret Atwood, Peter Carey and Bonnie Burnard. She currently lives in Vancouver with her family. Her new book of short stories, Oh, My Darling, will be published by Harper Collins Canada in Fall 2013.
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