Good Victory
by Mikka Jacobsen
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Pub Date Feb 01 2025 | Archive Date Feb 28 2025
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Description
Debut stories about the absurdity of growing up and being human in the twenty-first century.
A woman finds her childhood friend working in a booth at a psychic fair in the West Edmonton Mall courtyard. A lonely neuropsychology student steals cocaine from his lab rat in an effort to impress a Tinder date. A group of teenage girls play a dangerous game and discover a portal to another reality.
Good Victory explores the strangeness and absurdity of being human in the twenty-first century: high school dances, teen pregnancy, and the continued cultural relevance of Wayne’s World; fatalistic obsessions with karaoke bars and Dolly Parton; supposed pimps hiding under the Calgary Stampede watchtower. Both unsettling and illuminating, these stories shine light in dark places.
A Note From the Publisher
Advance Praise
Praise for Good Victory
“In these taut, revelatory, slyly wry tales of sinister neighbours, distracted mothers, careless dads, and bad friends, Mikka Jacobsen probes the darkness that lurks around the edges of childhood and young womanhood with a gaze as unflinching and unsettling as Heather O’Neill’s.” LISA ALWARD author of Cocktail
Praise for Mikka Jacobsen
“. . . wickedly good, wickedly funny, wickedly smart, but also just plain wicked.” SUZETTE MAYR author of The Sleeping Car Porter
“. . . the ethos is reminiscent of Sheila Heti—unafraid to reveal its own intellect as it pushes through doubts, romanticisms and conventional delusions, toward revelation and a shimmering, precarious clarity.” ALBERTA VIEWS
Marketing Plan
- Launch in Calgary; other readings in Victoria, Vancouver, Lethbridge, Toronto, Halifax
- Pitches to national media and literary festivals (Wordfest Calgary, Vancouver Writers Festival, WOTS Toronto, WOTS Lethbridge, Cabot Trail Writers Festival, AfterWords Literary Festival)
- Robust influencer outreach
- Reviews in Alberta Views, Literary Review of Canada
- Advance copies to Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Quill and Quire, Calgary Herald, Globe and Mail, Room Magazine, GEIST, subTerrain, Broken Pencil, CBC's Daybreak Alberta, PRISM, Joyland, The Windsor Review
- eGalleys on NetGalley and Edelweiss
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781990601835 |
| PRICE | $22.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 256 |
