Barbara Lehtiniemi

The eight short stories included in this anthology offer a glimpse at Canada's geographic landscape-spanning the Yukon, Canadian Prairies, Great Lakes, and metropolitan Toronto while starring protagonists who are well-storied in loss, yet not all choose to grieve. You will crunch across sub-zero tundra and bake on the beach alongside our hero(in)es. You will live like hermits and populate condos. You will search the remains of a knocked down church and dig up a decades old box. You will fall in love with a fallen angel and a sufferer of galeophobia. Like the Canadians who created them, our feisty leads think outside the box to adapt to the challenges and changes thrust upon them.