\u003cdiv\u003eWINNER OF THE QWF FIRST BOOK PRIZE\u003cBR\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u0026#147;Alice Petersen writes as eloquently about the natural world as she does about the world of human emotion and desire. This is a wise and impressive collection of stories.\u0026#8221;\u0026#151;David Bezmozgis, author of \u003cI\u003eThe Free World\u003c/I\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003cBR\u003eAlice Petersen's \u003cI\u003eAll the Voices Cry\u003c/I\u003e is masterful and potent\u0026#151;incredibly satisfying for a reader.\u003cBR\u003e\u0026#151; Kathleen Winter, author of \u003cI\u003eAnnabel\u003c/I\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003cBR\u003eAn academic\u0026#8217;s wife, struggling to keep up with her husband\u0026#8217;s quest to find a long-dead author\u0026#8217;s Tahitian love-garden, realizes that her own idea of paradise no longer includes her husband. An architect dreams of slender redheads, Champlain\u0026#8217;s astrolabe, and a brush with mortality\u0026#151;and finds at least the latter at \u003cI\u003eDanseuses 7 Jours\u003c/I\u003e. An elderly man boards a trans-Pacific flight in an attempt to elude the prediction of a psychic, only to understand too late how the prophecy has shaped his actions.\u003cBR\u003e\u003cBR\u003eIn \u003cI\u003eAll the Voices Cry\u003c/I\u003e, modern life collides with all the old pushes and pulls: city and country, the global and the local, the ideal and the real. Petersen\u0026#8217;s characters chase the mirage of escape, and are brought up hard by reality. This is a book rooted in landscape, tangled in the brambles of personal history, and it introduces in Alice Petersen a wondrous new voice that is yours to discover.\u003cBR\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003cB\u003eAlice Petersen \u003c/B\u003eis a writer and critic whose work has been shortlisted for numerous Canadian prizes and awards. She was born in New Zealand and now lives and works in Montreal, Quebec.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003c/div\u003e
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