The Crane It’s 1968 and James Anderson’s twin brother Dave has just been killed in the Vietnam war. Knowing his turn is next, James turns his back on his family’s military legacy, evades the draft, and travels to Newfoundland to fulfill a promise his brother made to a fellow soldier. Unwittingly swept into an intergenerational…
Beatrice (Turnstone Press, 2001) Beatrice is about to have her heart ripped out. Like most small prairie towns, Beatrice, Alberta has at its way of life, its own townspeople, its own familiar quirks. At the centre of the community lies the heart of the people, their grain elevator, and the townsfolk have just been told…
The Momentum of Red (Raincoast Books, 2004) The Momentum of Red tells the gripping and unusual story of the fierce loyalty and selfless love that can exist between father and daughter. Randy, a truck driver in his fifties, raises his daughter Mar after his wife dies in childbirth. As his beloved Mary grows up, he…