Home Schooling - Softcover

Windley, Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1896951910 ISBN 13: 9781896951911

Publisher: Cormorant Books, 2006

Synopsis

From the acclaimed author of Visible Light comes a collection of seven outstanding stories, each set against the rural landscape of Vancouver Island and the cities of the Pacific Northwest. In these stories the memories and dreams of characters are examined, revealing them to be both cages and keys to the cages.

The life-lessons learned by the characters are often as complicated and painful as they are illuminating. In the title story, two sisters fall in love with their math tutor on one of the Gulf Islands, inhabited equally by the ghosts of the misfits and Hollywood stars who came to live there, and the children of an alternative school, run by the girls' criminally optimistic father. In "Sand and Frost," a young girl drops out of UBC, returns home, and discovers that her domineering grandmother is the sole survivor of a shocking act of family violence. In "What Saffi Knows," a child, unable to explain to her self-involved parents, struggles with the knowledge of the whereabouts of another missing child. In these remarkable seven stories, Carol Windley creates a sense of place and of people that breathe the cool wet air of a spring morning on Gabriola Island.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This much-anticipated second collection of short stories by Carol Windley capters the shimmering, mutable light of the U.S. Pacific Northwest and Vancouver Island, wher a diverse and unforgetable group of caharacters confront sorrows and triumphs.

About the Author:

Carol Windley is the author of the award-winning collection of short stories, Visible Light, and the acclaimed novel, Breathing Underwater. Her fiction has been published in literary magazines across Canada. In 2002, she won a Western Magazine Award for the short story "What Saffi Knows." Born on Vancouver Island, she has taught at Malaspina College, and now lives in Nanaimo with her husband.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cormorant Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1896951910
• ISBN 13: 9781896951911
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300