Crush: Short Story

by Bonnie Burnard

In one daring act on a magnificently hot summer afternoon, a young girl challenges her mother, her upbringing, and her modesty, shifting from childhood into the murky world of adulthood.

Finalist for the Giller Prize and winner of the Saskatchewan Book of the Year, Casino & Other Stories pulls us beneath the surface of convention into uncharted and often unpredictable emotional territory. Wry and intelligent, humane and touching, Bonnie Burnard’s stories seduce and then surprise us with a sense of the familiar finally understood, and of passion recognized.

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13 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 28, 2013

About the author

Bonnie Burnard was a Canadian novelist and short story writer.

She grew up in Forest, Ontario and lived much of her life in Saskatchewan. Burnard based her books on her roots in Southwestern Ontario.

In 1989 Women of Influence won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for a first novel. In 1995 she was awarded the Marian Engel Award, and in 1999, she won the Giller Prize for her novel, A Good House.

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Reviews

[Nolan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Little ditty on promiscuity and a challenge of the nature of monogamy and female chastity. Engrained gender expectations from both of the other perspective characters (managing three perspectives in about 10 pages of material, to boot!) underscore traditional modes of thinking that persist in gender relations to this day.