The Slow Fix [Paperback]

These stories are elegant and homespun, light and piercing, straightforward with a twist. Ivan Coyote unsettles and reassures with a single, skilled stroke.
—Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Alison Bechdel Alison Bechdel 20080918)

Strongly autobiographical in flavor, they celebrate the ties of family, a love for the unspoiled wilderness, and the connections sometimes forged by lonely strangers.
—GLBT Roundtable Newsletter (American Library Association) (GLBT Roundtable Newsletter 20081018)

Friends, family, and lovers are the lifeblood of Coyote’s latest story collection, The Slow Fix. These largely autobiographical pieces are all about connection—or, sometimes, missed connections.... The wonder of Coyote's stories is that even the straightest reader will be touched by their generous heart, and by the seeming immediacy of their kitchen-table clarity.
—Georgia Straight (Georgia Straight 20081201)

Storyteller and author Ivan E. Coyote has carved a career out of finding the homespun humour in everyday (and not-so-everyday) events, and translating that wry sensibility to both the page and the stage. In her latest collection of short stories, The Slow Fix, Coyote revisits the destruction by fire of her Eastside home, her subsequent move to the sticks of Squamish, the effects of globalization on her Yukon hometown, and, of course, the perils of gender politics in Canada today.
—The West Ender (Vancouver) (The West Ender )

Coyote challenges our views about gender, tells us a little bit about what it's like to be a lesbian in a small town, tells us about her childhood, and in general she entertained me to the end. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and would recommend it to anyone who enjoys reading literature that challenges the way that you view the world.
—The Book Chick blog (The Book Chick )

Shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award (lesbian fiction)

Ivan E. Coyote is one of Canada's most acclaimed storytellers; her first three collections were insightful, deeply personal stories about gender, identity, and community. Ivan's most recent book, Bow Grip (2006), was her first novel; it won the ReLit Award, was shortlisted for the Ferro-Grumley Fiction Prize in the US, and was named a Stonewall Honor Book by the American Library Association.

With The Slow Fix, Ivan returns to her short story roots in a collection that is disarming, warm, and funny while at the same time subverting our pre-conceived notions of gender roles. In "By Any Other Name," Ivan gets into some serious male bonding with her Uncle Rob; in "The Curse?" a cousin's stepdaughter helps her to overcome her lifelong dread of buying tampons; and in the title story, she does her best to fix what's wrong in the world by telling the homophobe in the barber's seat next to hers to shut up.

Ivan excels at finding the small yet significant truths in our everyday gestures and interactions. By doing so, she helps us to embrace not what makes us women or men, but human beings.

Now in its second printing!