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A poignant collection of stories exploring the immigrant experience in Canada.
Coming Here, Being Here is an anthology that captures the diverse journeys of immigrants to Canada. Through essays, memoirs, and reportage, this collection highlights the humor, ironies, and agonies of building a new life in a new land. Discover stories of hope, resilience, and the search for belonging as individuals navigate cultural adaptation and personal transformation. This anthology is for anyone interested in:
- Understanding the immigrant experience in Canada
- Exploring themes of identity and cultural heritage
- Connecting with personal stories of migration and adaptation
Canadians are as varied as pebbles on a beach. This anthology reflects the diversity in Canadian society and the complex multicultural population with its varied voices. This is a must-read for those seeking to understand the heart of the Canadian identity.
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The author of a clutch of novels, plays, film scripts and short story and poetry collections, Michael Mirolla describes his writing as a mix of magic realism, surrealism, speculative fiction and meta-fiction. Publications include three Bressani-prize winners: the novel Berlin (2012); the poetry collection The House on 14th Avenue (2014); and the short story collection, Lessons in Relationship Dyads (2016). His novella, The Last News Vendor, published in the fall of 2019, won the 2020 Hamilton Literary Arts Award for fiction. A speculative fiction collection, Paradise Island & Other Galaxies, appeared in the fall of 2020 and was longlisted for the ReLit Awards. A new poetry collection, At the End of the World was published in 2021. The short story, "A Theory of Discontinuous Existence," was selected for The Journey Prize Anthology; and both "The Sand Flea" and "Casebook: In The Matter of Father Dante Lazaro" are Pushcart Prize nominees. In the fall of 2019, Michael served a three-month writer's residency at the Historic Joy Kogawa House in Vancouver, during which time he finished the first draft of a 200,000-word novel, The Second Law of Thermodynamics. Born in Italy and raised in Montreal, Michael now makes his home in Hamilton.
