{"product_id":"as-good-a-place-as-any-volume-225-paperback","title":"As Good a Place as Any: Volume 225 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRebecca Papucaru\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA teenaged refugee chases stardom but finds her purpose in Canada's abortion-rights movement. Fleeing Chile after the 1973 coup, sixteen-year-old Paulina and her older brother Ernesto settle in Toronto. While Ernesto dreams of a glorious homecoming, Paulina embraces her liberation from the conventional life expected of her back home. Yet despite landing her first big role on a popular children's cartoon, and her first girlfriend, she cannot escape survivor's guilt. Haunted by the death of a childhood friend, she joins the underground struggle for reproductive freedom. But when a fellow exile pleads for her help terminating a pregnancy, Paulina's public and private selves threaten to collide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRebecca Papucaru's debut collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Panic Room\u003c\/i\u003e (Nightwood Editions) was awarded the 2018 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry and was also a finalist for the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (Quebec Writers' Federation) and longlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award (League of Canadian Poets). Her short fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eGrain\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEvent\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Dalhousie Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e; \"Yentas\" was awarded \u003ci\u003eThe Malahat Review\u003c\/i\u003e's 2020 Novella Prize. Her first novel will be published by Guernica Editions in 2025. She lives in Montreal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.84 x 7.98 x 5.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42403218882695,"sku":"9781771839396","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/481234eec8bc361942064469de04ecdb.webp?v=1741421099","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/as-good-a-place-as-any-volume-225-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}