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Liminal

Jordan Tannahill
Chapters (20)
  1. Openers
  2. Author’s Note
  3. Epigraph
  4. I
  5. II
  6. III
  7. IV
  8. V
  9. VI
  10. VII
  11. VIII
  12. IX
  13. X
  14. XI
  15. XII
  16. XIII
  17. XIV
  18. Acknowledgements
  19. About the Author
  20. About the Publisher

Openers

Cover image of Liminal by Jordan Tannahill. A quote at the top of the cover says "Generous, bold, unabashedly emotional, and really smart." — Ann-Marie MacDonald, author of The Way the Crow Flies. The background of the cover is blue with a distorted profile of a face lit up in orange.

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LIMINAL

Jordan Tannahill

House of Anansi Press logo.

Copyright © 2018 Jordan Tannahill

Published in Canada in 2018 by House of Anansi Press Inc.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

Distribution of this electronic edition via the Internet or any other means without the permission of the publisher is illegal. Please do not participate in electronic piracy of copyrighted material; purchase only authorized electronic editions. We appreciate your support of the author’s rights.

All of the events and characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Tannahill, Jordan, author

Liminal / Jordan Tannahill.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-1-4870-0378-4 (softcover). — ISBN 978-1-4870-0379-1

(EPUB). — ISBN 978-1-4870-0380-7 (Kindle)

I. Title.

PS8639.A577L56 2018                 C813’.6             C2017-904727-2

C2017-904728-0

Book design: Alysia Shewchuk

Cover image: Rob Castro / Arcangel Images Ltd.

Logos for Canada Council for the Arts and Ontario Arts Council.

We acknowledge for their financial support of our publishing program

the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund.

For my mother

Author’s Note

Author’s Note

This is a work of fiction. And while I have drawn inspiration from real people I know, I can assure the reader that without exception the real people are better in every way.

Epigraph

“I” is merely one of the world’s instantaneous spasms.

— Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G. H.

When we speak the word “life,” it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

— Antonin Artaud, Theatre of Cruelty

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