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Heaven is Small
By: Emily Schultz
250 p., 2009
Gordon Small, a failed writer, finds employment proof-reading romance novels for the hugely successful Heaven Book Company. What Small has failed to notice, however, is that he is dead. Trapped in a purgatorial and antiseptic office tower somewhere between hell and north Toronto, Small wrestles with the purple prose of would-be romance writers, tolerates his clueless colleagues, and finds himself plagued by the same insecurities which haunted him in life.
Small is sustained, however, by his love for Chloe, his talented ex-wife, whom he follows about, but whom he can never contact. In this darkly comic novel, novelist Emily Schultz observes the banality of the daily corporate grind while offering a quirky twist on romantic clichés.
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Born in Canada in 1974, Emily Schultz was singled out by the Globe and Mail as one of the country's most prominent writers under thirty. She is the author of the acclaimed novel Joyland, and her story collection Black Coffee Night was shortlisted for the ReLit Award and the Danuta Gleed Award for Best First Collection of Short Fiction. Schultz was also a Trillium finalist her poetry collection, Songs for the Dancing Chicken.
Her writing has also appeared in the Globe and Mail, Eye Weekly, The Walrus, Geist, Descant, Event, Taddle Creek, This Magazine, and several anthologies. She currently lives in Toronto and teaches creative writing at George Brown College.
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Anansi Press, Interview and Reading (audio)
Broken Pencil
National Post
Open Book Toronto
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