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In this stunning and keenly anticipated collection of stories Dorothy Speak explores family loss betrayal conflict and entrapment in narratives shining with humour mystery and anguish. Speak has published four other highly acclaimed works written in the same luminous prose: a novel called The Wife Tree and three short story collections entitled The Counsel of the Moon Object of Your Love and Reconciliation. Following in the footsteps of Alice Munro she is one of this country's few remaining career practitioners of the short story a proud Canadian genre.