Award-winning author Darcy Tamayose returns with Ezra’s Ghosts, a collection of fantastical stories linked by a complex mingling of language and culture, as well as a deep understanding of grief and what it makes of us. Within these pages a scholar writes home from the Ryukyu islands, not knowing that his hometown will soon face a deadly calamity of its own. Another seeker of truth is trapped in Ezra after her violent death, and must watch how her family—and her killer—alter in her absence. The oldest man in town, an immigrant who came to Canada to escape imperial hardships, sprouts wings, and a wounded journalist bears witness to his transformation. Finally, past and present collide as a researcher reflects on the recent skinwars that have completely altered the world’s topography. Binding the stories together is an intersect of arrival and departure—in a quiet prairie town called Ezra.

Darcy Tamayose has been a writer for Lethbridge Living Magazine for the past ten years. She is also a graphic designer for Adair Advertising and Global Television. She has attended the Alberta College of Art and the University of Lethbridge, as well as the Humber School for Writers. In 1992 she wrote and illustrated an art exhibit, Riding Back and the Sacred Circle, which travelled through the Alberta school system. Her book for young adults, Katie Be Quiet, was published in 2008. She lives in Lethbridge with her husband and daughter.

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• Short-listed, Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction
• Short-listed, Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize

“An immersive and intelligent page turner.… this is a treasure.” — Publishers Weekly

“Touching and hard to categorize … a wonderfully conceived figure on par with the novelist Alessandro Baricco's best characters is the willing reader’s prize.” — Literary Review of Canada