Publisher's Synopsis
New collection from a writer who has won four major fiction prizes from institutions and magazines across CanadaFlood's last book, Red Girl Rat Boy (2014) was a finalist for both the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and was selected as a "Best Book / Best Short Fiction" of the year by 4 major media outlets in Canada.Possible blurbs from Nancy Richler, Cary Fagan, Kate Cayley, Meredith Quartermain, Caroline Adderson, Irina KovalyovaVoice-driven stories (compare: Anakana Schofield), highly inflected, with remarkable character range (of age, class, gender)Realist fiction with a considerable variety of length, style, voice, and tone often dealing with the ways in which people deceive themselves about their motives.
