GARY BARWIN Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy Winner of the 2021 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Fiction

JAI CHAKRABARTI A Play for the End of the World

A middle-aged Jewish man who fantasizes about being a cowboy goes on an eccentric quest across Europe after the 1941 Nazi invasion of Lithuania, in a deeply felt exploration of genocide, persecution, colonialism and masculinity, saturated in Barwin’s sharp wit and perfect pun-play.

GARY BARWIN is a writer, composer, and multidisciplinary artist and the author of 23 books of poetry, fiction and books for children. His recent national bestselling novel, Yiddish for Pirates, also won the Canadian Jewish Literary Award and was a finalist for both the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction.

JAI CHAKRABARTI’S short fiction has appeared in numerous journals, he was an Emerging Writer Fellow with A Public Space and received his MFA from Brooklyn College. He was born in Kolkata, India, and now lives in Brooklyn, NY.

A dazzling debut novel--set in the early 1970s in New York and rural India--the story of a turbulent, unlikely romance, a harrowing account of the lasting horrors of WWII, and a searing examination of one man’s search for forgiveness and acceptance. Jaryk’s quest to stage the same play that he performed as a child in Warsaw, as an act of resistance against the Nazis, leads to a provocative exploration of the role of art in times of political upheaval.