Trevor Cole’s bestselling debut novel garnered rave reviews and comparisons to Truman Capote and Kingsley Amis. Now the Governor General’s Award finalist is back with The Fearsome Particles, a brilliantly observed comic tragedy about the widening cracks in a family’s picture-perfect veneer. Geral...
When he got home with his little pack of two, Linda and Suzy were gone. For a moment he thought the worst. Then he remembered it was Sunday. The two of them were probably swimming at the indoor pool at the community centre. Linda liked to swim on her days off, to relieve the stress of her nursing...
While it did the gutters coursed and the sidewalks danced, and hissing cars along Howell Road carved plumes through puddles big as lawns. One of those cars, Jean saw as she walked toward home with Natalie, was Jeff Birdy’s orange Barracuda, and the sight of it disappearing into the downpour was a...