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Deborah Willis


Born
Calgary, Canada
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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Short Stories


Deborah Willis is a writer based in Calgary, Alberta. Her first book, Vanishing and Other Stories, was shortlisted for Canada's Governor General’s Award for fiction, named one of The Globe and Mail’s top 100 books of the year, and recommended by NPR as one of the best books of 2010. Her second book, The Dark and Other Love Stories, was longlisted for the 2017 Giller Prize, won the Georges Bugnet Award for best work of fiction published in Alberta, and was named one of the best books of the year by The Globe and Mail, the CBC public broadcaster, and Chatelaine Magazine. Her fiction and non-fiction has appeared in The Walrus, The Virginia Quarterly, The Iowa Review, Lucky Peach, and Zoetrope. ...more

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Average rating: 3.51 · 4,869 ratings · 942 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors
Girlfriend on Mars
3.41 avg rating — 3,792 ratings — published 2023
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The Dark and Other Love Sto...
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Vanishing and Other Stories
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“It’s like the Garden of Eden, except better than the original. Every plant here is the Tree of Knowledge, and you can eat from it whenever you want.”
― Deborah Willis, Girlfriend on Mars
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“The problem was so big, so overwhelming. A few consumer choices weren't going to cut it, but what else could she do? Choices were the problem. Humans must make them, and every choice involves loss. Every choice is a death. And we hate death, are terrified of death, will do any depraved thing to avoid even its shadow. We are unwilling to sacrifice. Unable to cooperate. How to fight our own nature? It was over. The end.”
― Deborah Willis, Girlfriend on Mars
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“She'd be the Type A mom who forces our fetus to listen to Mozart, and has a non-medicalized birth on a paddleboard in the middle of the ocean, and enrolls our kid in gender-neutral sports classes, and encourages him/her/them to become an activist-entrepreneur by age twelve. And I'd balance it all by being the cereal-and-cartoons-on-Saturday-morning dad, the let's-wander-to-the-library-and-take-out-age-inappropriate-books guy, the dude who makes Mommy laugh and ensures that every once in a while she takes a fucking nap.”
― Deborah Willis, Girlfriend on Mars
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