What Boys Like: and Other Stories

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What Boys Like brings together a motley assemblage of urban misfits and outsiders, and explores their love/hate relationships with their city and one another. Joness characters grapple with lust, love and loss with an unsentimental eye, while remaining open to the sharp-edged humour caused by the chaotic and random nature of life, and the absurdity of the world around them.

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Story after story she's hauling out some new literary stunt, some new way to make her story enthrall you.--Salty Ink "Jones takes an unblinking look at a variety of social misfits and more run-of-the-mill damaged people, all trying to find their way...a brilliant collection"--The Chronicle Journal "When Jones hits her stride, she displays an incisive eye, a knack for poignancy, and sharp, witty dialogue."—Quill & Quire "Amy Jones excels at the prose of invisible labour. In the best of this debut collection, her writing reads like understanding - as if there's no gap between the words and what they make you perceive."—Globe and Mail

Author Bio

Amy Jones: Originally from Halifax, Amy Jones is a graduate of the Optional Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at UBC. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in several Canadian publications, including The New Quarterly, Grain, Prairie Fire, Event, Room of One's Own, The Antigonish Review, and 08: Best Canadian Stories. In 2006, she was the winner of the CBC Literary Award for Short Story in English. Amy currently lives in Toronto.