Where does one person end and the other begin? Thats the question that haunts Irene, a girl growing up in Toronto during the Great Depression. Living with her father, a pharmacist who finds comfort in the bottle, and her mother, a woman teetering ...
An astonishing variety of voicesmale, female, young oldnarrate the 20 diverse stories in this, Lauren B. Daviss first collection, though which alcohol flows like an unholy river of destruction and despair. In locales such as Halifax, Spain and rur...