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  • Promotional banner for Happiness Has a Slippery Tail by Abla Farhoud, translated by Judith Weisz Woodsworth. The left side features the book title and author text in large, bold letters on an olive-green background, with the Open Book logo below. On the right, a smiling woman with short dark hair wears a light blue jacket and a navy scarf tied in a bow. The background includes abstract, colorful brushstrokes in green, orange, and red tones.
    Promotional banner for Happiness Has a Slippery Tail by Abla Farhoud, translated by Judith Weisz Woodsworth. The left side features the book title and author text in large, bold letters on an olive-green background, with the Open Book logo below. On the right, a smiling woman with short dark hair wears a light blue jacket and a navy scarf tied in a bow. The background includes abstract, colorful brushstrokes in green, orange, and red tones.
    October 31, 2025

    Read an Excerpt from HAPPINESS HAS A SLIPPERY TAIL by Abla Farhoud (translated by Judith Weisz Woodsworth)

    In Happiness Has a Slippery Tail, celebrated Lebanese-Canadian writer Abla Farhoud offers a moving portrait of migration, memory, and resilience through the unforgettable voice of Dounia, a seventy-five-year-old ...

  • Governor General's Literary Award Winners Revealed with Wins for Sheila Heti and Eli Baxter
    Governor General's Literary Award Winners Revealed with Wins for Sheila Heti and Eli Baxter
    November 16, 2022

    Governor General's Literary Award Winners Revealed with Wins for Sheila Heti and Eli Baxter

    This morning, the Canada Council for the Arts revealed the 2022 winners of the Governor General’s Literary Awards (now branded as GGBooks). The English language winners are Sheila Heti for fiction, ...

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