Specimen

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2015

ISBN-13: 9781770898189

<p><strong>Winner, 2016 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Fiction </strong></p><p><strong>Finalist, 2016 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize</strong></p><p>The stories in <em>Specimen</em> are a unique exploration of science and the human heart; the place where physical reality collides with our spiritual and emotional lives.</p><p>In “The Blood Keeper,” a young academic travels to North Korea to work on her dissertation and embarks on a dangerous affair. In “Mamochka,” which was nominated for the 2012 Journey Prize, an archivist at the Institute for Physics in Minsk, must come to terms with her daughter’s marriage to a Chinese man in Vancouver. In “Peptide P,” scientists study a disease that seems to affect children after they eat hotdogs. In “Side Effects,” a woman’s personality is altered, and not necessarily for the better, by botox injections. In “The Big One,” a woman and her daughter find themselves trapped in the rubble of an underground parking garage after an earthquake.</p><p>Stylistically varied and with settings that range from North Korea and Minsk to Vancouver and Gdansk, Kovalyova is daring and confident new voice in Canadian fiction.</p>