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The dark and other love stories

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"Energized, irreverent, novelistic stories full of longing, strange humour, and the complications of human entanglement from Governor Generals Award nominee Deborah Willis . The characters in these thirteen masterful and engaging stories exist on the edge of danger, where landscapes melt into dreamscapes and every house is haunted. A drug dealers girlfriend signs up for the first manned mission to Mars. A girl falls in love with a man who wants to turn her into a bird. A teenage girl and her best friend test their relationship by breaking into suburban houses. A wife finds a gaping hole in the floor of the home she shares with her husband, a hole that only she can see. Full of longing and strange humour, these subtle, complex storiesabout the love between a man and his pet crow, an alcoholic and his AA sponsor, a mute migrant and a newspaper reportershow how love ties us to one another and to the world. The Dark and Other Love Stories announces the emergence of a wonderfully gifted storyteller whose stories enlarge our perceptions about the human capacity to love."--From publisher.