{"product_id":"cocktailbooks","title":"Cocktail","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award • Longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction • Winner of the New Brunswick 2023 Mrs. Dunster’s Award for Fiction • One of the \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e's \"Sixty-Two Books to Read This Fall\" • Listed in \u003cem\u003eCBC Books\u003c\/em\u003e Fiction to Read in Fall 2023 • A \u003cem\u003eMiramichi Reader\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of 2023 • A \u003cem\u003eTyee\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A writer to watch.\"—\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eA girl receives a bedtime visit from a drunken party guest, who will haunt her fantasies for years. A young mother discovers underneath the wallpaper a striking portrait that awakens inconvenient desires. A divorced man distracts himself from the mess he’s made by flirting with a stranger. These intimate, immersive stories explore life's watershed moments, in which seemingly insignificant details—a pot of hyacinths, a freshly painted yellow wall—and the most chance of encounters come to exert a tidal pull. Set in the swinging sixties and each decade since, \u003cem\u003eCocktail\u003c\/em\u003e reveals the schism between the lives we build up around us and our deepest hidden selves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alward, Lisa","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":47168197984480,"sku":"","price":13.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_b831bc5a-68ae-44e2-92fc-0711902fec7f.jpg?v=1742740285","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/cocktailbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}