The Y Chromosome - Sumach Press

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The Y Chromosome
A Novel
by Leona Gom

"Brilliant" and "compellingly written."

— The Edmonton Journal

"Deserves a slow and careful read from readers of both sexes."

— The Globe & Mail

Prize winning novelist and poet Leona Gom departs from her previous books and challenges the reader to meet an all-women society of the future. Taut and gripping — a page turner at its very best — The Y Chromosome examines the relations and value system of a culture of women where the few men still alive are in hiding, socialized early in life to regard themselves as inferior. This futurist society abhors its ancestry, a male-dominated world where violence was commonplace. But Gom's woman's universe is far from perfect. Avoiding caricatures and easy answers, The Y Chromosome is an ironic and provocative novel which probes women's and men's lives in a society which, despite striking differences, bears many similarities to our world today.

About the Author Leona Gom has published six books of poetry and seven novels and has won both the CAA Award for poetry and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. She has taught for many years at Douglas/Kwantlen College, where she edited the award-winning magazine Event, and also at University of Alberta and U.B.C. She has held major writer-in-residencies at U of A, University of Lethbridge, and University of Winnipeg. Her work has been included in over fifty anthologies, and five of her books have been translated into other languages. She is the only Sumach author we know of who has been used as a clue in a National Post crossword puzzle!

The Y Chromosome

Categories
· Futurist Fiction
· Women's Fiction

272 pages
$14.95 Cdn
$14.95 US
6" x 9" paper
ISBN-10: 0-929005-16-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-929005-16-4

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· After-Image
· Double Negative
· Freeze Frame
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