Laura Lush's poignant collection of short stories offers a subversive and playful look at women as they try to regain control and power in the oftentimes sexually charged arena of female/male relationships. Lush has carefully laid out the order of stories so that they follow a natural age progression, beginning with stories that are told from a child's or adolescent's perspective (or an adult looking back on a childhood memory) to stories that are told from an adult's perspective. In this way, the stories also progress from a small town or rural landscape to a more sophisticated urban and/or foreign landscape.

Laura Lush, known for her highly imagistic and lyrical poetry, lives and teaches in Toronto. She has published two previous collections of poems: Hometown, which was nominated for the 1992 Governor General’s Award for Poetry, and Fault Line (1997). Poems from The First Day of Winter earned her second place in the 2002 CBC Literary Contest. Her first collection of fiction, Going to the Zoo, is to be published by Turnstone Press.

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