Shortlisted for the 2021 ReLit Novel Award
Throw Down Your Shadows captures small town adolescence with unwavering veracity, Hemming’s gracefully restrained prose gives us an intimate view of what it’s like to come of age in the expansive lusciousness of rural Nova Scotia, amongst complicated relationships forged in a tight-knit, intergenerational community.
- Eva Crocker, author of Barrelling Forward and All I Ask
Throw Down Your Shadows blends psychological depth and menace to create a story that is both propulsive and thoughtful: a rich, character-driven novel with touches of the weird and the regional particularities of the Annapolis Valley. Hemming upends the conventions of coming-of-age novels while demonstrating that unique stories of adolescence crashing into adulthood can have universal resonance.
- Naben Ruthnum, author (as Nathan Ripley) of Find You in the Dark