Kirjahaku

Fourteen stories featuring characters caught in amazing circumstances. This collection follows the characters as they push new boundaries and explore the complexity of relationships. Each story reveals the intricacies of the human condition. Join them as they navigate through life choices. Through spare, haunting, dramatic prose, the reader will discover worlds of startling clarity. Powerful Evocative The stories resonate and bear revisiting.Acclaim for Mel Dagg's fiction: Dagg demonstrates extraordinary poise...while avoiding the sentimentalization the stories warn against. Montreal Gazette A marvel of precision and personal vision. Alberta Report Genius when it comes to the art of fiction. I think of Mel as one of the more important voices now at work in Western Canada Gary Geddes Artistic poise, the complexity of relationship, the smoothness and delicacy of evocation, the human condition. Hugh Hood Wonderful- and clear and clean and focused...way beyond "description" - it's what writing should do. Gayla Reid, winner of The Journey Prize and Ethel Wilson Prize Reverberates in the mind long after the book is closed. Newest Review Power to involve us now and move us deeply. Vancouver Sun Dagg's primary concern is the human heart, endlessly beating beneath the skin and the good that flows through the soul. He probes deep into the human centred world of his fiction. There are small epiphanies on every page. Richard Olafson, Ekstasis Editions

Fourteen stories featuring characters caught in amazing circumstances. This collection follows the characters as they push new boundaries and explore the complexity of relationships. Each story reveals the intricacies of the human condition. Join them as they navigate through life choices. Through spare, haunting, dramatic prose, the reader will discover worlds of startling clarity. Powerful Evocative The stories resonate and bear revisiting.Acclaim for Mel Dagg's fiction: Dagg demonstrates extraordinary poise...while avoiding the sentimentalization the stories warn against. Montreal Gazette A marvel of precision and personal vision. Alberta Report Genius when it comes to the art of fiction. I think of Mel as one of the more important voices now at work in Western Canada Gary Geddes Artistic poise, the complexity of relationship, the smoothness and delicacy of evocation, the human condition. Hugh Hood Wonderful- and clear and clean and focused...way beyond "description" - it's what writing should do. Gayla Reid, winner of The Journey Prize and Ethel Wilson Prize Reverberates in the mind long after the book is closed. Newest Review Power to involve us now and move us deeply. Vancouver Sun Dagg's primary concern is the human heart, endlessly beating beneath the skin and the good that flows through the soul. He probes deep into the human centred world of his fiction. There are small epiphanies on every page. Richard Olafson, Ekstasis Editions

In the summer of 1930, fifteen-year-old Matthew Clayton's mother dies, leaving him alone in Vancouver. Using the Union Steamship ticket she gave him, he sets out in search of his father, who is logging somewhere on the rugged West Coast. Matt boards the SS 'Cardena' and begins an incredible voyage up the Inside Passage and through the isolated coastal communities the ship services. On board he befriends fellow passengers Monica James and the high rigger Will Cameron, both intent on finding a new life, and Emily Carr, a soon-to-be-famous painter searching for a new direction in her art. What each of them finds comes as a surprise as they journey aboard the legendary steamship 'Cardena'.