Death and despair follow John Healy around like the sad and sombre notes the fiddle plays in the backroom of the local store in the small Nova Scotia village he calls home.

Been in the Storm So Long is one man's journey from the East Coast of Canada to New Orleans and back, from whaler to thief, murder accomplice to father and husband, alive to dead and back (more than once). The intimate story of Healy's life as he navigates an emotional journey fraught with unbearable death and loss, keeps unspoken truths from those who matter most, and finds redemption when all seems lost, is a story that transcends time. Can John Healy leave what happened in the past where it belongs, or will it shape his future in ways he can't possibly imagine?

Terry Jordan's new novel, at once provocative and meditative, is a picturesque portrait of a time and place, and one man's struggle for forgiveness.

Terry Jordan is an award-winning writer and dramatist whose It's a Hard Cow won the Saskatchewan Book Award in 1994 and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize. He was the first Margaret Laurence Fellow at Trent University in 1996. His stories have been widely published and featured on CBC Radio, and his award-winning plays, Reunion, Movie Dust and Close Your Eyes, have been produced across the country. Terry Jordan lives in Allan, Saskatchewan.Beneath That Starry Place is Jordan's most recent novel.

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