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With sparing, incisive prose, Cynthia Flood's 'Addresses' unravels what it meant to be a married woman in post-war era Vancouver. Kirsty Logan's 'In Our House by the Sea' is about the romance of domesticity. Set in New York City, Danny Goodman's 'Somehow There Was More Here' tells the story of Ben, a young man who spends his days fighting off adulthood, until the return of an ex-lover leaves him unsure of everything. In Lana Storey's 'Cross Yourself', Joan Miró settles into his new job working the overnight shift at a Hasty Market in Toronto after the incomprehensible death of his son.
111 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 15, 2011
About the author
Cynthia Flood
17 books5 followersCynthia Flood grew up in Toronto (apart from two years in England), and after university lived in California and New York. Returning to Canada, she lived briefly again in Toronto and then in Montreal before moving to Vancouver in 1969.
In the late 60s and early 70s Cynthia Flood began to publish short fiction. Left-wing and feminist activity was also a focus through the 80s, along with work on various political magazines and newspapers. She taught in the English Department at Langara College, and was much involved with the faculty union and Women's Studies.
Her first collection, The Animals In Their Elements, appeared in 1987, and was followed in 1992 by My Father Took A Cake To France (both from Talonbooks). Her first novel, Making A Stone Of The Heart, was published in 2002 by Key Porter.
At present she remains connected politically but concentrates on writing. A second novel is underway.
The English Stories
Her latest book, The English Stories, appeared in May 2009 from Biblioasis Press. It's a suite of short stories set in 1950s England, in a girls' school and in a small residential hotel. The collection has won glowing reviews in Quill & Quire, the Globe and Mail online, and the Vancouver Sun.
One story, "Religious Knowledge," won the National Magazines Gold Award in 2000, and "Miss Pringle's Hour" (originally in Descant) appeared in the Salon des Refusés issue of Canadian Notes & Queries in Summer 2008. "Learning to Dance" appeared in the 2008 Best Canadian Stories, edited by John Metcalf.
In the late 60s and early 70s Cynthia Flood began to publish short fiction. Left-wing and feminist activity was also a focus through the 80s, along with work on various political magazines and newspapers. She taught in the English Department at Langara College, and was much involved with the faculty union and Women's Studies.
Her first collection, The Animals In Their Elements, appeared in 1987, and was followed in 1992 by My Father Took A Cake To France (both from Talonbooks). Her first novel, Making A Stone Of The Heart, was published in 2002 by Key Porter.
At present she remains connected politically but concentrates on writing. A second novel is underway.
The English Stories
Her latest book, The English Stories, appeared in May 2009 from Biblioasis Press. It's a suite of short stories set in 1950s England, in a girls' school and in a small residential hotel. The collection has won glowing reviews in Quill & Quire, the Globe and Mail online, and the Vancouver Sun.
One story, "Religious Knowledge," won the National Magazines Gold Award in 2000, and "Miss Pringle's Hour" (originally in Descant) appeared in the Salon des Refusés issue of Canadian Notes & Queries in Summer 2008. "Learning to Dance" appeared in the 2008 Best Canadian Stories, edited by John Metcalf.
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