End Times

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Finalist for the Quebec Writers' Federation Concordia University First Book PrizeEnd Times is an astounding debut collection of stories about evangelical culture, ideological polar ization, and the messiness and mysteries of humanity.A Vancouver mother convinces her opioid-addicted son to attend church, and sparks her own personal emergency. A jet-setting consultant tries to help a rural fundamentalist teen, while her own secular life unravels in Toronto, Davos, and beyond. An atheist doctor attempts to expose a hipster megachurch pastor as a closeted hypocrite.At a time when the end feels nigh for many, End Times brings together an expansive cast of the devout and the dissenting, the elderly and the young, immigrants, elites, the burned-out, and the lonely, exploring our hidden anxieties and longings. Show more