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FEATURED INQUILL & QUIRE'S 2023 FALL PREVIEW THEGLOBE AND MAIL: BOOKS TO READ IN FALL 2023 CBC BOOKSCANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN FALL 2023 PUBLISHERS WEEKLYBIG INDIE BOOKS OF FALL 2023 THEGLOBE AND MAILBEST 100 BOOKS OF 2023 THE TORONTO STAR BEST 100 BOOKS OF 2023 From the author of Maidenhead, a reverse cautionary tale about a young woman exploring the boundaries of sex and belonging in the early 2000s Distraught that her teenage daughter is in love with a woman a decade older, Yara's mother sends her away from their home in Brazil to Israel, on a Birthright trip for Jewish youth. Freed from her increasingly controlling and jealous girlfriend, Yara is determined to forge her own path and follow her desires. But Birthright takes a debaucherous turn, and Yara flees Israel for Toronto and then California. As she wanders, Yara is forced to reframe her relationship and her ideas around consent. Set in the sex-tape-panicked early 2000s, Yara is a reverse cautionary tale about what the body can teach us. ""Tamara Faith Berger is one of our best writers of the body, capturing in sharp, red-hot prose its raw animal urges, its often confused and contradictory desires, and the way our search for pleasure can be both liberatory and self-annihilating. Like Israel, bodies are contested territories, and in Berger's revelatory new novel, Yara seeks to wrest control and meaning from the forces that seek to instrumentalize hers: nationalism, capitalism, pornography, and lovers."" Jordan Tannahill, author of The Listeners ""Yarais a complicated novel about the confusions of consent and kinship, the way love makes victims of us all, told with cool, epigrammatic verve. As raw, destabilizing and searching as its titular protagonist, it's Berger's best book yet."" Jason McBride, author ofEat Your Mind ""Canada's finest and boldest writer. Tamara Faith Berger is my favourite ball buster."" Anakana Schofield, author ofBina: A Novel in Warnings

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There are no easy moments, no comfort to be found in the searing prose. . . . When writers get young female sexuality right, stories become a revelation and such is the case with Maidenhead. The writing pulls the reader desperately close. - Roxane Gay on Maidenhead, The Rumpus Myra's confusion, her passion, her need for possession and to be possessed, make this novel an incredible read, finding its place, as Sheila Heti (who should know) wrote, 'somewhere between the wilds of Judy Blume, Girls Gone Wild and Michel Foucault.' - Flavorwire, on Maidenhead Raw, powerful, political, and compassionate, albeit with sharp elbows. 'There are no forsaken human beings, ' writes Berger, and, indeed, through the cacophony of voices, violence, sex, and family conflict we get the shining ability of humans to survive, and the beauty that the buds of forgiveness finally enclose. - Amber Sparks on Queen Solomon Berger's writing is significant, poignant and consciously uncomfortable. Her portrait of female sexuality is daring, original and troubling. Berger's language is crass; this isn't missionary-style 'love-making.' This is dirty, animalistic sex. This is pornography rubbing up against the literary establishment. - Telegraph-Journal on Little Cat I bought this book hoping for good masturbation material, but honestly my mind was too blown to even move my hand. - Miranda July on Kuntalini Tamara Faith Berger has been writing challenging and sexy books for more than a decade. - The Believer on Kuntalini

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Tamara Faith Berger writes fiction, non-fiction and screenplays. She is the author of Lie With Meand The Way of the Whore (which were collected by Coach House Books asLittle Cat),Maidenhead, and Kuntalini. Maidenhead won the 2012 Believer Book Award. Her fifth book, Queen Solomon, was published by Coach House Books in 2018 and was nominated for a Trillium Book Award. She has a BFA in Studio Art from Concordia University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. She lives and works in Toronto.

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