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Danila Botha

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Danila Botha is the author of the critically acclaimed short story collections, Got No Secrets, For All the Men (and Some of the Women) I’ve Known, which was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award, The Vine Awards and the ReLit Award and most recently, Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness. Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness won an Indie Reader Discovery Award for Women's Issues, Fiction, and was a finalist for the Canadian Book Club Awards, the Next Generation Indie Book Awards and the National Indie Excellence Book Awards. She is also the author of the award-winning novel Too Much On the Inside, which was optioned for film by Pelee Entertainment. Her new novel, A Place for People Like Us will be published in Sept 2025.
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	Things That Cause Inappropriate Happiness 4.26 avg rating — 58 ratings — 2 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
	For All The Men (and Some of The Women) I've Known 4.22 avg rating — 41 ratings	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
	Too Much on the Inside 4.08 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2012 — 3 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
	got.no.secrets 3.26 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2010	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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	Querencia Winter 2023 by Emily Perkovich (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ann Kammerer (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Dani De Luca (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — 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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“I don’t understand what’s wrong with being whoever I want to be, especially when it feels truer sometimes than who people think I actually am.”
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“The joy I’m feeling is too intense to express.I don’t know what’ll happen next month, or even next week. What I know is that we both want to try.”
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“What I’ve learned is, what people want is to tell someone, anyone, their problems.”
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“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
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“I love the grime, the real-life feel of things, the mix of dollar stores and libraries, high school students and prostitutes, little kids and dealers. What I like most about my Parkdale neighbourhood is that I can disappear.”
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“What I’ve learned is, what people want is to tell someone, anyone, their problems.”
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“I hate all the worry about what someone else is feeling, this crippling insecurity, this tightness in my chest.”
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“There’s something electric about someone believing you’re the real deal.”
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