{"title":"Lisa Alward","description":"Lisa Alward grew up in Halifax during the 1960s and 70s. She worked in literary publishing in Toronto in the 80s and began writing fiction at 50. Her stories have won The Fiddlehead Prize and the Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award and have appeared in Best Canadian Stories and The Journey Prize Stories, as well as literary journals such as The New Quarterly,  The Fiddlehead, untethered, Prairie Fire, and Exile. She lives with her husband, John, near the Wolastoq River in Fredericton.","products":[{"product_id":"cocktail-paperback","title":"Cocktail - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne of the \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e's \"Sixty-Two Books to Read This Fall\" - Listed in \u003cem\u003eCBC Books\u003c\/em\u003e Fiction to Read in Fall 2023 - A \u003cem\u003eMiramichi Reader\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of 2023 - A \u003cem\u003eTyee\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A writer to watch.\"-\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA girl receives a bedtime visit from a drunken party guest, who will haunt her fantasies for years. A young mother discovers underneath the wallpaper a striking portrait that awakens inconvenient desires. A divorced man distracts himself from the mess he's made by flirting with a stranger. These intimate, immersive stories explore life's watershed moments, in which seemingly insignificant details-a pot of hyacinths, a freshly painted yellow wall-and the most chance of encounters come to exert a tidal pull. Set in the swinging sixties and each decade since, \u003cem\u003eCocktail\u003c\/em\u003e reveals the schism between the lives we build up around us and our deepest hidden selves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104877449439,"sku":"9781771965620","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ozMELeU82R9781771965620.webp?v=1781111505"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/lisa-alward.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}