As a transracial adoptee to a white evangelical family, Mooney was harassed for his racial identity and forced to adhere to fundamentalist teachings in his church. Invisible Boy is a memoir detailing Mooney's experiences of displacement and racism from childhood to adulthood. Mooney won the nonfiction prize for Invisible Boy. Invisible Boy is a book by Harrison Mooney. "While walking in the steps of such gothic icons as Mary Shelley and Shirley Jackson, McKeen manages to forge her own path: avoiding the clichéd, the gratuitous, and the overwritten to create in Tear an inventive, affecting, modern work," said this year's literary fiction judge C.S. Her short stories have been featured in many literary journals such as PRISM international and The Dalhousie Review. McKeen is a fiction writer currently based in Vancouver. "Receiving this recognition validates the sacrifices I have made in order to make time for writing." "Writing is the work that makes the most sense to me it's work that hooks me to the earth, that grounds me, and that helps me map the world," McKeen said in a press statement. Inspired by classic Gothic fiction, Tear offers an eerie insight into the narratives of young women, both real and imagined.Ģ2 Canadian books that will get you in the Halloween spirit Her memories begin to fracture, her dreams meld into her childhood and there's a tapping sound growing louder and louder through her bedroom wall. Frances is living alone in a basement apartment, about to graduate from university when she begins to question her reality. McKeen won the literary fiction prize for Tear.Īn exploration of female rage and fear, Tear is a horror coming-of-age novel set in London, Ont.
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