Joanna Cockerline

By Canadian author Joanna Cockerline - a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Literary Awards prizewinner nominated for Canada's biggest literary award - Still is a novel of friendship, community, resiliency, and hope. Still is the story of Kayla, an 18 year-old who finds herself living and working on the streets of a Canadian city. There, she befriends a woman who is also a sex worker who goes missing. Still follows Kayla's search for her missing friend, but in her search, she also uncovers much about her traumatic past, the violence she is fleeing, and what she ultimately longs for. The novel explores what it means to survive, and what it means to find a home - especially within one's self. "Evocative and unforgettable, Still holds a light up to the street life we so often neglect, showing us the people, their dreams, their challenges, and their humanity with compassion and hope. Yet it celebrates so much more, such as friendship and self-empowerment. The story is told with a vivid and poetic style that stays with you long after you put down the book." - Munira Hussein, Africa Writing Prize shortlisted author of A Curve of Darkness, Unfit for Society, and Highland Cactus, and co-author of the Kenyan and Canadian short story anthology Seeing Our Sisters, for which Joanna Cockerline is also a co-author