We Have Never Lived On Earth, Kasia Van Schaik
We Have Never Lived On Earth, Kasia Van Schaik
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We Have Never Lived On Earth

Author: Kasia Van Schaik

Narrator: Marysia Bucholc

Unabridged: 5 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 03/31/2023


Synopsis

Kasia Van Schaik’s debut story collection follows the journey of Charlotte Ferrier, a child of divorce raised by a single mother in a small town in British Columbia after moving from South Africa. Mother and daughter wait out the end of a bad year in a Mexican hotel; a friendship is tested as forest fires demolish Charlotte’s town; a childhood friend disappears while travelling through Europe; and a girl on the beach examines the memories of dying jellyfish. The stories traverse the most intimate and transforming moments of female experience in a world threatened by ecological crisis.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Krista on November 04, 2023

We’ve never lived on earth. I point this out to him as the bus veers up the street. In the world we’re creating together, no animals exist, no seasons either. We live eight storeys up and never touch soil. We follow highways not rivers. We name our heat waves after our grandmothers. We pretend our p......more

Goodreads review by Andrea on September 16, 2023

Absolutely stunning--it starts in a sort of quiet, unassuming way (a set of small vignettes about a girlhood) and becomes more and more haunting and strange, surreal and dream-like with distinct feminist themes. Highly recommend.......more

Goodreads review by Alex on October 02, 2023

3.5 A solid collection of connected short stories with one very strong offering and several slighter ones that felt like vignettes.......more

Goodreads review by Ian on March 24, 2023

Kasia Van Schaik’s remarkable debut collection of short fiction is narrated primarily by Charlotte Ferrier, a high school student when we meet her, living with her divorced mother and younger sister, Nina, in a small town in British Columbia’s mountainous interior. Charlotte’s mother Willo has broug......more

Goodreads review by Maria on September 28, 2023

Such a wonderful interconnected short story collection! This is definitely the type of book that needs to be binge read. I feel like I need to go back and reread a few of these stories for sure. Beautiful writing!......more