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BREAKING BREAD
Essays from New England on Food, Hunger, and Family Editors: Deborah Joy Corey & Debra Spark Nearly 70 renowned New England writers gather round the table to talk food and how it sustains us—mind, body, and soul. A collection of essays by top literary talents and food writers, Breaking Bread celebrates local foods, family, and community, while exploring how what’s on our plates engages with what’s off: grief, pleasure, love, ethics, race, and class. Proceeds from this collection of essays will benefit BLUE ANGEL MAINE. ORDER HERE FROM OUR FAVORITE LOCAL BOOKSTORES: COMPASS ROSE BOOKS BLUE HILL BOOKS |
In a revelation of memory and unflinching insight, prompted by the death of her parents, author Deborah Joy Corey probes the complex bonds between family, lovers, and neighbors that shaped her sense of identity: then, as a girl growing up in rural New Brunswick, and now as a wife and mother living on the coast of Maine. With astonishing skill and delicacy, she weaves a story of faith and transcendence, of loyalty and regret, and shows us how–despite the passage of time and a world fraught with disillusion–wonder prevails and love sustains.
“I adore Settling Twice. Deborah Joy Corey’s work is a singular joy to ingest.” Andre Dubus III
“Settling Twice is a book of quiet reflection, of wistful regard, where revelations of a family offer us the whole life of a remarkable woman. It is a book to be grateful for.” Patrick Lane
“Deborah Joy Corey puts a whole universe on the head of a pin as she considers a woman’s many roles and explores the loaded themes of creativity, sexuality, and spirituality in the harsh and beautiful world of coastal Maine. God is in these pages, which is something different and very damn interesting, in my opinion.” Lee Smith
“I adore Settling Twice. Deborah Joy Corey’s work is a singular joy to ingest.” Andre Dubus III
“Settling Twice is a book of quiet reflection, of wistful regard, where revelations of a family offer us the whole life of a remarkable woman. It is a book to be grateful for.” Patrick Lane
“Deborah Joy Corey puts a whole universe on the head of a pin as she considers a woman’s many roles and explores the loaded themes of creativity, sexuality, and spirituality in the harsh and beautiful world of coastal Maine. God is in these pages, which is something different and very damn interesting, in my opinion.” Lee Smith
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"This fiction face-off produced another nail-biter as novelist Deborah Joy Corey's The Skating Pond won a runoff vote over Alice McDermott's Child of my Heart and veteran novelist and screenwriter Richard Price's Samaritan." Elle Magazine Elle's Lettres Readers Prize
"An island village off the coast of Maine is the landscape for a love story as rocky as the coast itself...A sensitive novel, rich in scenic detail and in the turbulence of human longings." Elizabeth Hardwick "Wrenching in its humanity and universal in its themes. A very fine book and Deborah Joy Corey is an exceptional writer." Alistair MacLeod "The way The Skating Pond conjures up a landscape so palpable it might well be an actual character reminds me of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. Like Bronte's, Corey's vision is dark and unsettling, almost hellish at times, but redeemed by moments of grace." Frances Kiernan "The Skating Pond is starkly beautiful in both its emotional and physical terrain. Deborah Joy Corey is a magical writer and her new novel burrows deep under the skin." Richard Russo |
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"One of the most confident debuts Canadian fiction has seen in some time." Maclean's
"This debut is coming at you with the speed and force of a running horse, the glide of a hawk, and the strong hope of a child." Andre Dubus "Deborah Joy Corey has fashioned a chilling and compelling novel of a harsh world with skill, intensity, and compassion." Alice Hoffman "The short, probing sentences of this novel are absolutely luminous, and the book mixes compassion and observation, a rare feat." David Homel, Books in Canada "Losing Eddie is a haunting and breathtaking literary debut." The Sunday Daily News |