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ISBN 13: 978-1-55017-159-4
ISBN 10: 1-55017-159-3
Price: $16.95 CAD; $16.95 USD
Paperback
6 x 9 - 160 pp
1997

by Jean Rysstad

Home fires can be warm and cozy - and they can also be magnetic, volatile and just a bit dangerous.

Book Description

These short stories, written from BC's north coast, unfold mostly at home, and mostly in the family. A woman writes to her sisters, remembering their weddings and her own; a little boy comes home from his paper route early, looking a bit pale; a mother takes her children to Prince George on the train, to stay with their musician dad in a seedy hotel. There are quiet moments in these stories, but quite a few more urgent and hilarious and shocking and desparate moments.