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Projection

Encounters with My Runaway Mother

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Projection

Encounters with My Runaway Mother

By: Priscila Uppal

2013 Governor General’s Literary Award — Shortlisted, Non-Fiction 2013 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust — Shortlisted, Non-Fiction Projection is the story of this mother-daughter meeting in Brazil, of how two strangers, connected by little more than blood, spent ten days together trying to build a relationship. In 1977, Priscila Uppal’s father drank contaminated water in Antigua and within 48 hours was a quadriplegic. Priscila was two years old. Five years later, her mother, Theresa, drained the family’s bank accounts and disappeared to Brazil. After two attempts to abduct her children, Theresa had no further contact with the family. In 2002, Priscila happened on her mother’s website, which featured a childhood photograph of Priscila and her brother. A few weeks later, Priscila summoned the nerve to contact the woman who’d abandoned her. The emotional reunion was alternately shocking, hopeful, humorous, and devastating, as Priscila came to realize that not only did she not love her mother, she didn’t even like her. Projection is a visceral, precisely written, brutally honest memoir that takes a probing look at a very unusual mother-daughter relationship, yet offers genuine comfort to all facing their own turbulent and unresolved familial relationships.

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1771024739

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The Still Body Is the Perfect Body

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The Still Body Is the Perfect Body

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This short story is taken from the collection Cover Before Striking. The most common phrase in print is “cover before striking,” a warning to those about to innocently strike a match to be careful not to burn their fingers. Uppal’s characters in Cover Before Striking are all people pushing their lives to new levels of intensity, danger, or passion as they test their limits and those of the world. Implacable and just a little unhinged, the stories of Cover Before Striking each move toward that moment of contact when the sparks begin to fly, when destruction and beauty seem to blur together. With this collection, Priscila Uppal offers the literary equivalent of playing with fire. “The Still Body is the Perfect Body” was originally published in Smoke.

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1459732758

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The Divine Economy of Salvation

By: Priscila Uppal

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The Divine Economy of Salvation

By: Priscila Uppal

A luminous debut . . . Haunting, gripping, and surprisingly nuanced . . . A work of great depth and seriousness." —Kirkus Reviews When Sister Angela receives an anonymous package containing an ornate silver candlestick, an object she hasn't seen in twenty-five years, her safe and secure life begins to shatter. Suddenly, she must confront her darkest secret: her participation in a crime from which she can no longer hide. As she sets about discovering who sent her the package, memories of St. X. School for Girls come back to haunt her. At the center is a group of girls who call themselves The Sisterhood, from whom fourteen-year-old Angela desperately seeks comfort and approval. Saddened by her mother's declining health and her father's abandonment, Angela looks up to the group's beautiful and alluring leader, Rachel. When she is encouraged by Rachel to play a joke on another student, the rituals of The Sisterhood take a violent turn. Now, from within the safe refuge of her convent and with the unexpected help of a young pregnant girl, Angela at last faces the truth-and the boundaries of faith. In the tradition of The Secret History and Lying Awake, The Divine Economy of Salvation is a dark, powerful, and suspenseful story that captures the innocence and cruelty of adolescence and the mysteries of adulthood.

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Algonquin Books

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1616202343

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We Are What We Mourn

The Contemporary English-Canadian Elegy

By: Priscila Uppal

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We Are What We Mourn

The Contemporary English-Canadian Elegy

By: Priscila Uppal

The first book on the Canadian poetic elegy challenges all previous ideas about the purpose of mourning.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773534563

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9780773534568

Three Days Left

By: Priscila Uppal

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Three Days Left

By: Priscila Uppal

This short story is taken from the collection Cover Before Striking. The most common phrase in print is “cover before striking,” a warning to those about to innocently strike a match to be careful not to burn their fingers. Uppal’s characters in Cover Before Striking are all people pushing their lives to new levels of intensity, danger, or passion as they test their limits and those of the world. Implacable and just a little unhinged, the stories of Cover Before Striking each move toward that moment of contact when the sparks begin to fly, when destruction and beauty seem to blur together. With this collection, Priscila Uppal offers the literary equivalent of playing with fire. “Three Days Left” was originally published in The Fiddlehead and was nominated for the Journey Prize.

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1459732693

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The Boy Next Door

By: Priscila Uppal

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The Boy Next Door

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This short story is taken from the collection Cover Before Striking. The most common phrase in print is “cover before striking,” a warning to those about to innocently strike a match to be careful not to burn their fingers. Uppal’s characters in Cover Before Striking are all people pushing their lives to new levels of intensity, danger, or passion as they test their limits and those of the world. Implacable and just a little unhinged, the stories of Cover Before Striking each move toward that moment of contact when the sparks begin to fly, when destruction and beauty seem to blur together. With this collection, Priscila Uppal offers the literary equivalent of playing with fire. “The Boy Next Door” was originally published in Blood & Aphorisms magazine.

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1459732669

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Mycosis

By: Priscila Uppal

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Mycosis

By: Priscila Uppal

This short story is taken from the collection Cover Before Striking. The most common phrase in print is “cover before striking,” a warning to those about to innocently strike a match to be careful not to burn their fingers. Uppal’s characters in Cover Before Striking are all people pushing their lives to new levels of intensity, danger, or passion as they test their limits and those of the world. Implacable and just a little unhinged, the stories of Cover Before Striking each move toward that moment of contact when the sparks begin to fly, when destruction and beauty seem to blur together. With this collection, Priscila Uppal offers the literary equivalent of playing with fire. “Mycosis” was published in Pagitica and nominated for the Journey Prize.

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1459732723

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Blind Spot

By: Priscila Uppal

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Blind Spot

By: Priscila Uppal

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1459732707

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The Lilies

By: Priscila Uppal

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The Lilies

By: Priscila Uppal

This short story is taken from the collection Cover Before Striking. The most common phrase in print is “cover before striking,” a warning to those about to innocently strike a match to be careful not to burn their fingers. Uppal’s characters in Cover Before Striking are all people pushing their lives to new levels of intensity, danger, or passion as they test their limits and those of the world. Implacable and just a little unhinged, the stories of Cover Before Striking each move toward that moment of contact when the sparks begin to fly, when destruction and beauty seem to blur together. With this collection, Priscila Uppal offers the literary equivalent of playing with fire. “The Lilies” was originally published in Humber Literary Review.

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1459732731

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Traumatology

By: Priscila Uppal

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Traumatology

By: Priscila Uppal

In exploring the topic of health, this collection of poetry tackles a crucial aspect of our lives--but one that is rarely a subject of contemporary art. Playful, satirical, surreal, yet unflinchingly humane, the poems introduce men with wands to patrol their neighborhoods, past selves smuggling themselves aboard airplanes, and unhappy people trying their luck on a psychological wheel of blame.

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155096139X

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9781550961393

Recipes for Dirty Laundry

By: Priscila Uppal

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Recipes for Dirty Laundry

By: Priscila Uppal

This short story is taken from the collection Cover Before Striking. The most common phrase in print is “cover before striking,” a warning to those about to innocently strike a match to be careful not to burn their fingers. Uppal’s characters in Cover Before Striking are all people pushing their lives to new levels of intensity, danger, or passion as they test their limits and those of the world. Implacable and just a little unhinged, the stories of Cover Before Striking each move toward that moment of contact when the sparks begin to fly, when destruction and beauty seem to blur together. With this collection, Priscila Uppal offers the literary equivalent of playing with fire. “Recipes for Dirty Laundry” was originally published in the TOK anthology Writing the New Toronto.

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1459732650

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To Whom It May Concern

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To Whom It May Concern

By: Priscila Uppal

Hardev Dange is suffering through a tumultuous year. He’s just been informed that the bank is going to foreclose on his house. His fickle daughter Birendra is on the verge of marriage, his son Emile is studying curses (while falling in love with a fellow male grad student), and his younger daughter, Dorothy, who’s deaf, is working at a tattoo and body piercing parlour and collecting stories from the older men languishing at her local hangout. And because he’s confined to a wheelchair, Hardev is dependent on his homecare worker, the kleptomaniac Rodriguez, to help him devise a plan to keep house and home together. In this modern, multicultural re-telling of King Lear, Uppal explores the vulnerability and complexity of family and inheritance. She exposes the tragic and comedic dimensions of our failures to communicate and the consequences of our betrayals, which result in disappointment and disillusionment, but also, unexpectedly, in moments of compassion and love.

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Doubleday Canada

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0385673353

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9780385673358

Blind Spot

By: Priscila Uppal

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Blind Spot

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Projection

Encounters with My Runaway Mother

By: Priscila Uppal

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Encounters with My Runaway Mother

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Abandoned in childhood, Priscila Uppal, reunites with her long lost mother after a twenty-year absence.

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1771024720

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The Divine Economy of Salvation

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The Divine Economy of Salvation

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Algonquin Books

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We Are What We Mourn

The Contemporary English-Canadian Elegy

By: Priscila Uppal

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The Contemporary English-Canadian Elegy

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The first book on the Canadian poetic elegy challenges all previous ideas about the purpose of mourning.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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Confessions of a Fertility Expert

By: Priscila Uppal

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Confessions of a Fertility Expert

By: Priscila Uppal

This compelling collection of poems deconstructs ordinary visions, reassembling mundane experiences and perspectives and exploring the importance of life, goodness, and poetry.

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Exile Editions, Ltd.

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1550965506

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Pretending to Die

By: Priscila Uppal

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Pretending to Die

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Continuing the author's exploration of myth and mourning, this poetry collection examines how the past survives in the present and how people stay afloat amidst the knowledge of mortality.

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1550965190

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9781550965193

The Lilies

By: Priscila Uppal

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The Lilies

By: Priscila Uppal

This short story is taken from the collection Cover Before Striking. The most common phrase in print is “cover before striking,” a warning to those about to innocently strike a match to be careful not to burn their fingers. Uppal’s characters in Cover Before Striking are all people pushing their lives to new levels of intensity, danger, or passion as they test their limits and those of the world. Implacable and just a little unhinged, the stories of Cover Before Striking each move toward that moment of contact when the sparks begin to fly, when destruction and beauty seem to blur together. With this collection, Priscila Uppal offers the literary equivalent of playing with fire. “The Lilies” was originally published in Humber Literary Review.

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Sleepwalking

By: Priscila Uppal

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Sleepwalking

By: Priscila Uppal

This short story is taken from the collection Cover Before Striking. The most common phrase in print is “cover before striking,” a warning to those about to innocently strike a match to be careful not to burn their fingers. Uppal’s characters in Cover Before Striking are all people pushing their lives to new levels of intensity, danger, or passion as they test their limits and those of the world. Implacable and just a little unhinged, the stories of Cover Before Striking each move toward that moment of contact when the sparks begin to fly, when destruction and beauty seem to blur together. With this collection, Priscila Uppal offers the literary equivalent of playing with fire. “Sleepwalking” was originally published in Exile and was nominated for the Journey Prize.

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1459732685

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The Man Who Loved Cats

By: Priscila Uppal

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The Man Who Loved Cats

By: Priscila Uppal

This short story is taken from the collection Cover Before Striking. The most common phrase in print is “cover before striking,” a warning to those about to innocently strike a match to be careful not to burn their fingers. Uppal’s characters in Cover Before Striking are all people pushing their lives to new levels of intensity, danger, or passion as they test their limits and those of the world. Implacable and just a little unhinged, the stories of Cover Before Striking each move toward that moment of contact when the sparks begin to fly, when destruction and beauty seem to blur together. With this collection, Priscila Uppal offers the literary equivalent of playing with fire. “The Man Who Loved Cats” was originally published in Pottersfield Portfolio and a TSAR anthology.

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145973274X

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Cover Before Striking

By: Priscila Uppal

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Cover Before Striking

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This short story is taken from the collection Cover Before Striking. The most common phrase in print is “cover before striking,” a warning to those about to innocently strike a match to be careful not to burn their fingers. Uppal's characters in Cover Before Striking are all people pushing their lives to new levels of intensity, danger, or passion as they test their limits and those of the world. Implacable and just a little unhinged, the stories of Cover Before Striking each move toward that moment of contact when the sparks begin to fly, when destruction and beauty seem to blur together. With this collection, Priscila Uppal offers the literary equivalent of playing with fire. This story was winner of the Vanderbilt/Exile Short Story Prize 2013.

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1459732715

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At Your Service

By: Priscila Uppal

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At Your Service

By: Priscila Uppal

This short story is taken from the collection Cover Before Striking. The most common phrase in print is “cover before striking,” a warning to those about to innocently strike a match to be careful not to burn their fingers. Uppal’s characters in Cover Before Striking are all people pushing their lives to new levels of intensity, danger, or passion as they test their limits and those of the world. Implacable and just a little unhinged, the stories of Cover Before Striking each move toward that moment of contact when the sparks begin to fly, when destruction and beauty seem to blur together. With this collection, Priscila Uppal offers the literary equivalent of playing with fire. “At Your Service” was originally published in Existere.

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1459732766

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