Water inundates the lives of the characters in these Vancouver Island stories. While a teenage mother faces her situation, rainwater seeps under the door of her basement suite. A tree cutter, from atop a giant fir overlooking a sweeping ocean view, urinates into his wealthy customer’s flowerbed. A foster child is haunted by the image of a dying...

ISBN:978-0-88982-315-0 / $18.95
Krissy Mathews has returned. Four years ago, the beautiful seventeen-year-old vanished in the forest near her home. Obsessed with solving the case, a young hotshot detective has hunted her relentlessly.
Now she bursts through the door of her hometown’s hospital, a lifeless child in her arms and a man she refers to as her husband by her...

ISBN:978-0-88982-311-2 / $21.95
An artist in China. A bureaucrat in Canada.
On the surface, these pairs appear significantly different. But are they?
Recently separated from Gary, Wendy takes off to China, looking for a transcendent experience. She falls in with two performance artists and has to struggle with questions of artistic praxis, cultural difference...

ISBN:978-0-88982-297-9 / $19.95
Calan Gray talks to trees. They speak back to him. Not in words, exactly; he hears the language of trees. They become his sanctuary against a violent father who wishes to commit him to an institution for expressing such delusions. It is 1964, and the world is a harsh place for those who are different.
When his grandfather, Dunmore McLeod...

ISBN:978-0-88982-299-3 / $19.95
God Telling a Joke and Other Stories is a collection of new stories by the author of Bix’s Trumpet and Other Stories, named Book of the Year at the Saskatchewan Book Awards and a finalist for the ReLit Award in 2007, and A Book of Great Worth, one of Amazon.Ca’s Top Hundred Books of 2012.
Among the...