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The Blondes, August 2012
Doubleday Canada. Rights available: World excluding Canada
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Heaven Is Small
2009, House of Anansi (Canada)
2010, House of Anansi/PGW (US)
Praise for Heaven Is Small
Schultz’s latest is a satire of office life, romance novels, and afterlife narratives. She has accomplished something quite remarkable here…
—Publishers Weekly
Heaven is Small is confident, disturbing and clever reeling us along, prodding us to notice the lame trappings of what we call living…. Schultz’s voice is stronger than ever, her storytelling tighter and her writing still replete with those trademark ziplines, surprising little protons of description that vault the reader into Schultz’s unique narrative universe.
—Globe and Mail
Schultz has created a delightful cast of lost souls . . . Heaven is Small is a keen examination of life and the afterlife, brimming with intelligence and wit.
—Quill & Quire
Heaven Is Small [is] a stunning, often surprising read with moments of such audacity that the reader is likely to gasp out loud. . . . Schultz is an impressive talent . . . creating something new, something unique. The result is bold and winning, the sort of novel that satisfies on every level while managing to leave the reader with an afterglow of questions and observations.
—Vancouver Sun
Emily Schultz is one of those forces of nature that propels a literary scene.
—Toronto Star
Heaven Is Small is a Kafkaesque tale…
—The Hour
Schultz manages to channel the utter absurdity of romance novels and the workplace into a mostly charming book about someone who is just trying to make a difference, even if they missed the opportunity while they were alive…. A well-written meditation on how we choose to live our lives, and who we choose to live them for.
—Verbicide
Heaven Is Small is both a love story and a biting book-world comedy, in which Schultz skewers with equal fondness genre publishers, literary magazines and slickly marketed fiction stars… Gordon’s workaday afterlife — with its bagged lunches, gossip and ghostly commuter culture — is drawn in hilarious and poignant detail.
—North Shore News (Vancouver)
Gordon Small, the hero of this smart, deadpan novel by Toronto’s Emily Schultz, makes the same mistake Bruce Willis did in The Sixth Sense: he fails to notice that he’s dead.
—Georgia Straight
Toronto author and poet Emily Schultz excels at creating intricate, beautifully drawn worlds, encapsulated like snow globes…. Heaven is Small is a funny but heartbreaking story about the publishing industry, the disconnect between authors and their readers…
—The Coast (Halifax)
