Billy-Ray Belcourt. COEXISTENCE. Penguin, 2024.
A short story collection by a writer passionately defended for his novel A Minor Chorus on CBC Canada Reads in April. Will read that when I can get a copy. (Will also read the winner, A Cure for Drowning, by a local writer.)
I seldom read short story collections. I am not sure why. I did enjoy this one. Why? As the title suggests, glimpses into lives I cannot imagine. I suspect that the politics behind the collection is to correct centuries of erasure of non-binary lives and of an Indigenous POV in fiction.
The stories that most moved me are: "My Diary", about hooking up with an old flame after twenty years, and "Various People", about Paul's attempting to cope with his mother's impending death. I also found the variety of glimpses into the creative process of different artists interesting.
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