Every Light in Every Window Every Tooth in Every Mouth

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Set in Edmonton as winter's teeth sink in Tanner Waldo's debut novel explores grief memory and emotional inheritance in a city that no longer feels like what it was. People drift through it-tired uncertain hoping something will change but unsure if it ever really does.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Julian walks that city like a half-remembered dream. His tumour is back his relationships are frayed and every street seems to echo with what he's lost.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Lena serves coffee to strangers while grieving a man she wasn't finished loving. Adrienne stands at the edge of a marriage she no longer believes in. And Hugh raised to swallow every emotion begins to question the quiet burdens passed down by the men in his life.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In a city that pretends it's awake five lives edge toward and away from each other. As dreams turn to hauntings and old wounds resurface in strangers' faces the same question echoes through each of them:</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Are we destined to stay the same even if we try to change?</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Told in luminous fragmented moments </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Every Light in Every Window Every Tooth in Every Mouth</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is a quiet descent through winter and selfhood-an aching portrait of people trying to outrun the weight of who they used to be.</span></p>