Wallflowers : stories
A collection of seventeen stories featuring a wide array of characters.
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- ISBN: 0143191403
- ISBN: 9780143191407
- Physical Description 295 pages
- Publisher Toronto : Hamish Hamilton, 2014.
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General Note: | Short stories. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 22.00 |
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Summary
Wallflowers
Shortlisted for the 2016 Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award From windswept Pacific beaches to the inner reaches of the human heart, Wallflower is a shimmering and often surprising journey of discovery, with many unexpected turns along the way. Robertson has created a cast of unique and wholly engaging characters. Here there are swindlers and innocents, unlikely heroes and gritty survivors; they teach us how to trap humming birds, relinquish dreams gracefully, and feed raccoons without getting bitten. "Wish you were here" letters on a road trip parallel a woman's painful trip into her family's dysfunctional past; reminiscences of a beloved sibling are inextricably bound up with calamity ... and roommate problems lead to a surprising (and skin-crawling) revelation. Robertson smashes stereotypes even as she shows us remarkable new ways of experiencing the world--and of relating to our fellow human beings. Quirky and masterful, Wallflowers is a bouquet of unconventional delights from a powerful new voice.