Like Sally Rooney's Conversations with Friends and Eileen Myles's Chelsea Girls, All I Ask by the award-winning and highly acclaimed author Eva Crocker is a defining novel of a generation.

A little before seven in the morning, Stacey wakes to the police pounding on her door. They search her home and seize her computer and her phone, telling her they're looking for "illegal digital material." Left to unravel what's happened, Stacey must find a way to take back the privacy and freedom she feels she has lost.

Luckily, she has her friends. Smart and tough and almost terrifyingly open, Stacey and her circle are uncommonly free of biases and boundaries, but this incident reveals how they are still susceptible to society's traps. Navigating her way through friendship, love, and sex, Stacey strives to restore her self-confidence and to actualize the most authentic way to live her life - one that acknowledges both her power and her vulnerability, her joy and her fear.

All I Ask is a bold and bracing exploration of what it's like to be young in a time when everything and nothing seems possible. With a playwright's ear for dialogue and a wry, delicate confidence, Eva Crocker writes with a compassionate but unsentimental eye on human nature that perfectly captures the pitfalls of relying on the people you love.

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About the Author
EVA CROCKER grew up in Ktaqamkuk (Newfoundland) and currently resides in Tiohti:ake (Montreal). Her debut novel All I Ask was longlisted for the 2020 Giller Prize and won the 2020 BMO Winterset Award. Her short story collection Barreling Forward was shortlisted for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for Emerging LGBTQS2 Writers and won the Alistair MacLeod Award for Short Fiction and the CAA Emerging Author's Award. She is a PhD student in Concordia University's Interdisciplinary Humanities program.

Reviews

All I Ask is a carefully crafted, observant novel, whose dialogue and scene composition retain an intimacy and immediacy ... [Eva Crocker] writes convincingly of the intersection of the personal and the political ... A deft, assured debut.

* Montreal Review of Books *


Awards
Short-listed for ReLit Award for Novel (Canada). Long-listed for Scotiabank Giller Prize 2020 (Canada).



Book Information
ISBN 9781487006075
Author Eva Crocker
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
Publisher House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
Weight(grams) 358g
Dimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 22mm