Suzette Mayr (Author of The Sleeping Car Porter)

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Suzette Mayr

Born

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Genre

Literature & Fiction

Influences

James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf ...more

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Suzette Mayr is the author of five novels including her most recent, Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall. Her fourth novel, Monoceros, won the ReLit Award and the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize, was long-listed for the 2011 Giller Prize, nominated for a Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction and the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction, and included on The Globe and Mail鈥檚 100 Best Books of 2011.

Her first novel, Moon Honey, was shortlisted for the Writers Guild of Alberta Best First Book and Best Novel prizes. The Widows, her second novel, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize for Best Book in the Canadian-Caribbean region.

Mayr is past president of the Writers' Guild of Alberta and teaches creative writing in the English ...more

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Average rating: 3.51 · 10,308 ratings · 1,478 reviews · 14 distinct works 鈥� Similar authors

	The Sleeping Car Porter 3.45 avg rating — 8,380 ratings — published 2022 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy by Nalo Hopkinson (Editor), Uppinder Mehan (Editor), Samuel R. Delany (Introduction) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 821 ratings — published 2004 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Monoceros 3.74 avg rating — 515 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall 3.56 avg rating — 386 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Widows 3.60 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moon Honey (Nunatak Series) by Suzette Mayr, Aritha van Herk (Editor), Rudy Henry Wiebe (Editor) 3.69 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Venous Hum 3.47 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Quotes by Suzette Mayr (?)

“I can always recognize the fellow wounded.”
― Suzette Mayr, Monoceros

tags: community, healing, lgbtq, lgbtqia, recovery, support

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“Come out of that closet, baby, the air鈥檚 so bright and disco out here.”
― Suzette Mayr, Monoceros

tags: lgbtq, lgbtq-community, lgbtq-literature, lgbtq-support, lgbtqia

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“Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing.”
― Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

tags: desperation, loathing, power, relationships, resentment

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Ladies time to vote on the March Members Choice Book

This poll will remain open until Feb 14th~~~

Ladies if you vote in this poll please plan on commenting in the thread also. Most everyone wants to have a good discussion about the books they read. That doesn't happen without everyone contributing.

So please make a comment in the thread if you read the chosen book. Did you like the story? Did you like the characters? Was there something you did not understand? Did this book remind you of another book? Have you read the author before? Do you like or dislike the author or their style of writing? Please leave your comments. Thanks

Good Luck to those who nominated books.

The Dictionary of Lost Words

by Pip Williams

13 votes, 32.5%

Memory Wall

by Anthony Doerr

8 votes, 20.0%

Our Missing Hearts

by Celeste Ng

7 votes, 17.5%

The Sleeping Car Porter

by Suzette Mayr

6 votes, 15.0%

The History of Rain

by Stephens Gerard Malone

4 votes, 10.0%

The Lightkeepers

by Abby Geni

2 votes, 5.0%

40 total votes

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