Stillwater: A Novel

". . . a delicious story of simmering cultural tensions that boil over during the pandemic. In turns irreverent, funny, deeply moving and heart-wrenching . . . " GAIL ANDERSON-DARGATZ, two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist

". . . a compelling exploration of family, liberation . . . and food." ANDREW UNGER, author of Once Removed and The Unger Review

“Darcie Friesen Hossack’s Lizzy grabbed hold of my heart right from chapter one. A fierce hero at war with her upbringing, with her father’s ideology, and with the society she does not yet have the power to escape, Lizzy inspires me . . . Stillwater reminds me that even with damaged wings, we can learn to fly. We must. Go, Lizzy!” ANGIE ABDOU, author of In Case I Go and This One Wild Life

“Seventh-day Adventists are rarely represented in literary fiction. And when the Adventist church does get a mention in serious literature, the depiction is often unflattering. Darcie Friesen Hossack’s recent novel Stillwater offers a damning portrait of an Adventist community that is also thoughtful, nuanced, and insightful.. . . like all good fiction, Stillwater deals not in abstractions but in specifics. The detailed evocation of the story’s Adventist and Mennonite communities—right down to the recipes—is what makes this novel powerful and memorable.” TRUDY J. MORGAN-COLE, Spectrum magazine

Sixteen-year-old Lizzy is trapped, caught between her passion for science and the teachings of her Seventh-day Adventist father and Mennonite mother. When her nurse father refuses to be vaccinated, he moves the family to a remote Adventist commune. Have the end times begun for the teenager, her drug addicted mother and her vulnerable younger brother?

• | Author: Darcie Friesen Hossack
• | Publisher: Tidewater Press
• | Publication Date: May 26, 2023
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781990160202
• | ISBN-10: 1990160204