Fiction
The 14 stories in Exit Strategies explore the subtleties of memory and storytelling, masterfully creating the universal picture from the quotidian details. This collection gives voice to characters who are not always heard. >>
A horrific betrayal sets the destiny of the Alevizopoulos family, farmers who dare to choose a side in WWI and the Greco-Turkish war. Survival might mean leaving what is most precious: home. Finding Callidora follows four generations of the family as they carry and pass on the scars of the past and their need to find the place where they belong. >>
Nana Underhill's intoxicated plan to run Lily over with her car seemed like a good idea at the time. >>
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Give Us This Day is a striking collection of short fiction that explores the weight of the past through a kaleidoscope of voices and styles. Whether intimate or expansive, meditative or urgent, each story reveals how missteps and circumstances shape identity, and how, for many, the past is never truly left behind. >>
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RCMP officer Roxanne Calloway is supposed to be on maternity leave, but when a body is found in a field near her home in the Interlake, she feels compelled to investigate. With the help of the victim's daughter, Roxanne races to uncover the truth, putting her career, her family, and her life on the line. >>
Pertice McIlveen, lover of Hemingway and hater of hats, finds that she has been mysteriously willed a cottage and the hats that come with it on Gannet Island, off the coast of New Brunswick. As she wears the hats and finds her life being tangled up in those of the islanders, she begins her journey to a new kind of grace under pressure. >>
Narrated by Bertie, the oldest of nine children in a working-class Catholic family, these stories uncover some of the hidden secrets and the mysterious bonds that hold families together. >>
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