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Chad Pelley

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Chad Pelley’s fiction has been recognized by a dozen literary awards.

His debut novel, Away from Everywhere, was a Coles bestseller, and was adapted into a film starring Jason Priestley, Joanne Kelly, and Shawn Doyle. Away from Everywhere was also shortlisted for the ReLit Award, the Canadian Author’s Association’s Emerging Author Award, and it won the CBC NLAC Emerging Artist Award. His second novel, Every Little Thing, was also shortlisted for the ReLit award.

His collection of short stories, Four Letter Words, was shortlisted for the Alistair MacLeod Short Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the Forward INDIES book of the year.

He is currently working on a novel about a society opposed to what's been imposed on them, set 30 years in the ...more

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	Away from Everywhere 3.98 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Anxious People (by Frederick Backman)
This is a funny but deeply human story about a failed bank robber who accidentally takes an open house full of people hostage. None of the hostages care though, because they all have bigger problems. It's phenomenally well constructed, plotted, and unfolded mystery. This was a completely original way of telling a story.

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“From the day after we lose someone, how we lost them doesn't matter. All that matters now is that they're gone, and there's absolutely no more interacting with that person. There's just the memories. And those memories will come pelting at you at random for a while, before you realize it can be beautiful to let them run through you.”
― Chad Pelley, Every Little Thing

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“When we can no longer kiss our lover with passion, we are admitting - in a blaring silence - it is over.”
― Chad Pelley, Away from Everywhere

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“He imagined the weight of his arm falling from where her body should have been, to the empty mattress. That extra quarter-of-a-second drop of his arm would be the loneliest moment of his life.”
― Chad Pelley, Every Little Thing

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