How To Tell If Your Frog Is Dead
Stories
by Julie Roorda
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Pub Date Oct 01 2019 | Archive Date Dec 10 2019
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Description
A tour guide leads a Valentine's Day-themed ghost walk, visiting the sites of horrific, yet romantic, deaths. A homicide cop solves tough cases using tips from his plants. Scientists discover a new species of religiously observant gophers, and a young math whiz, on the hunt for her escaped boa constrictor, ponders the theory of multiple worlds. Replete with dark humour and cheeky interrogations of philosophy and metaphysics, the thirty-three stories in How to Tell if Your Frog is Dead expose the fundamental absurdity of the human condition.
A Note From the Publisher
Marketing Plan
• Advanced copies available on Netgalley.
• Launch at Supermarket in Toronto in November 2019
• Advanced copies available on Netgalley.
• Launch at Supermarket in Toronto in November 2019
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781771833646 |
| PRICE | $20.00 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Words, Images, & Worlds (, Reviewer
I am so glad I had the opportunity to read How to Tell if Your Frog is Dead by Julie Roorda. The author approaches each story freshly, and incorporates humor and, at times, even a shadow of horror. The stories are clever, whether written in exchanges of dialogue or in the style of a tour guide. Now that I have read a digital copy...I want a hard copy. Amazing work, and I really enjoyed it!
Rachel D, Reviewer
Thank you to Netgalley for the ARC of this book. This was a nice collection of short stories. Enjoyed every one of them. This is a new author for me, but will definitely be reading more by her.
Reviewer 525829
How to Tell if Your Frog is Dead was at times funny, surreal, wacky, and most of all, unpredictable. Some of the short stories were refreshing and interesting enough to made me stop and think for just a moment. Some made me laughed out loud. It's a fun book to read in the summer by the beach with an ice cold drink.
Thank you NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Hadi A, Reviewer
How to Tell if Your Frog is Dead: Stories whispered the old magic again, and I read the beatified words of a talented author. I felt like I was walking on my own shadow; the little scandals, the big crimes, the church steps and public shaming were a hazy mirage riding over rich topical knowledge, which I always considered funny and exceptionally intriguing - Hadi Atallah, author of ‘Rosemary Bluebell.'
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