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Hollay Ghadery

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Poetry, Fiction, Memoir

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Hollay Ghadery is a multi-genre writer living in Ontario on Anishinaabe land. She has her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. Fuse, her memoir of mixed-race identity and mental health, was released by Guernica Editions in 2021 and won the 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award for Nonfiction/Memoir. Her collection of poetry, Rebellion Box was released by Radiant Press in 2023, and her collection of short fiction, Widow Fantasies, was released with Gordon Hill Press in fall 2024 and was longlisted for the Toronto Book Award. Her debut novel, The Unraveling of Ou, is due out with Palimpsest Press in 2026, and her children’s book, Being with the Birds, with Guernica Editions in 2027. Hollay is a host on The New Books Network, as well ...more

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"Thank you netgalley, for giving me the chance to read my favorite book of the year so far. This story doesn’t only tell the story of a mother and daughter but tells a story of a girl who got lost and just wandered through life with the support of a s" Read more of this review »
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""It's not every day a sock puppet visits a maternity ward," the book begins. It is, perhaps, even less often that a sock puppet is the narrator of a novel. It is not that unusual to introduce narrators for effect--small children and even pets have be" Read more of this review »
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Oh my heart. This beautifully written story of Minoo lodged itself in my heart from the first chapter and stayed there until the final page.

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I have a novel coming out next month, too, if you’re interested!

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“How, they wanted to know, had I stopped? I shrugged and quoted John DeVore’s essay about quitting drinking: “There comes a time in every person’s life where they put on pants or they don’t.”
― Hollay Ghadery, Fuse
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scurry like late theatre-goers at three a.m.”
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“So tell me what it’s like to stay asleep after the dream ends—not a Cavendish shoreline in sight —and how to exist in a tide; how sometimes you fight, and sometimes you let it take you places.”
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