{"product_id":"at-sea-in-a-sieve-paperback","title":"At Sea in a Sieve - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCordelia Strube\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA sharp and moving portrait of Ray -- judge, single parent, and tightly leashed woman whose survival strategies seem suddenly to be coming apart\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRay, a single mother and superior court judge, pounds a punching bag in her basement to manage her anger. She has concluded that life must be lived tightly leashed or chaos will move in. Her prime directive is to protect her daughter, Armada, from life's unruly forces. Ray deftly handles other people's problems, managing her courtroom and the politics of the judges' chambers, and defusing her neighbors' battles, all the while staying above the fray. But when her feckless, sweet brother re-enters Ray's life, bringing unpredictability and wayward emotion with him, and her sexy, but enervating Guatemalan ex crashes into her world, she realizes that her carefully piloted ship is not watertight after all -- it's no better than a sieve. Cascading events reveal to Ray that suffering cannot be held at bay and that life must be lived in all its messy glory. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePeopled with a cast of characters for the ages, from the eccentrics that surround Ray's courtroom and her street to a flock of recalcitrant hens, and laden with her trademark sly wit, this is Strube's best novel yet -- sharp, intensely humane, moving, and funny.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCordelia Strube\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of 11 critically acclaimed novels. Winner of the CBC literary competition, she has been nominated for the Governor General's Award and the Trillium Book Award and longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her novel \u003ci\u003eOn the Shores of Darkness There Is Light\u003c\/i\u003e won the City of Toronto Book Award. Strube divides her time between her Toronto home and her country house in Yarker, ON.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 560\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 16, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48713688613113,"sku":"9781770418608","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/FOfX9cG_KZ9781770418608.webp?v=1784994660","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/at-sea-in-a-sieve-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}