Perry Chafe is a TV writer producer and songwriter from St. Perry Chafe's Closer by Sea is part mystery, part east coast coming-of-age story As the mystery unravels, Pierce is forced to abandon his child-like innocence and face the harsh realities of growing up. Along the way, they encounter merciless bullies, brutal storms and magnificent sea creatures. When the community is hit hard by the disappearance of a teenaged girl named Anna, Pierce and a group of friends embark on an epic journey to find her. He's determined to save up enough to fix his dad's boat and take it out to sea himself.
It's the early 1990s and 12-year-old Pierce Jacobs is struggling to come to terms with his fisherman father's death at sea. (Simon & Schuster, submitted by Perry Chafe)Ĭloser by Sea is a coming-of-age story set in a small island community dealing with a local fishing industry on the brink of collapse. The Whispers by Ashley AudrainĬloser by Sea is a novel by Perry Chafe. He was selected as a mentee by Michael Christie for the Writers' Trust of Canada Mentorship program for his book Marchoba, which became Nothing Good Happens in Wazirabad on Wednesday. Aram's short story This Hard Easy Life was a finalist for RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers in 2020. Jamaluddin Aram is a Toronto-based documentary filmmaker, producer and writer from Kabul, Afghanistan. From a daughter selling scorpions to keep her mother from having to sell herself to the militiamen trying to solve a string of burglaries, to Bonesetter who reads his cat poetry, Aram provides a portrait of a community in its most mundane and extraordinary as the people of Wazirabad try to carve out a home and a life amidst war. Set in 1990s Kabul, Afghanistan against the backdrop of civil war, Nothing Good Happens in Wazirabad on Wednesday is a journey through the town of Wazirabad, which overflows with every kind of character imaginable. Jamaluddin Aram is a filmmaker, producer, and writer from Kabul, Afghanistan who now lives in Toronto.
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