Fiction Short Stories (single Author)
The Shadows We Mistake for Love
Stories
- Publisher
- Douglas & McIntyre
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2015
- Category
- Short Stories (single author)
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781771620956
- Publish Date
- Oct 2015
- List Price
- $24.95
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Description
Short stories based in BC’s West Kootenay region from multiple award-winning author and poet Tom Wayman.
Living in the shadow of the Selkirk Mountains in southeastern BC, the inhabitants of the Slocan Valley are tied together by magical and dramatic geography, but also by an intricate web of shared history, common needs and the deep and complex relationships that evolve in isolated locations, where everyone is visible and there is no anonymity. Tom Wayman’s new short story collection, The Shadows We Mistake for Love, brings together loggers and environmentalists, marijuana growers and small-town lawyers, back-country skiers and homesteaders, to overlap and coalesce into a brilliant portrait of rural life and place.
Beneath the valley’s idyllic surface, conflict and tension flourish among its inhabitants, ranging from the intimate to the political. In the title story, the protagonist is drawn into an environmental activist group and a relationship with the group’s charismatic leader, but having a child quickly brings home the painful realities of the new life she’s chosen. Other stories depict the changes that are altering the social landscape of the valley, from the ubiquity of the Internet to an influx of affluent new residents. These developments emphasize the ways in which the sometimes rawer and more visible dramas of rural life reflect similar tensions in communities everywhere.
About the author
Awards
- Winner, George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award
Other titles by
The Road to Appledore
Or How I Went Back to the Land Without Ever Having Lived There in the First Place
How Can You Live Here?
Watching a Man Break a Dog’s Back
Poems for a Dark Time
If You're Not Free at Work, Where Are You Free
Literature and Social Change
Helpless Angels
a book of music
The Order in Which We Do Things
The Poetry of Tom Wayman
Winter's Skin
Dirty Snow
Woodstock Rising
