Figurines: Short Story

by Bonnie Burnard

What’s the inherent meaning in the objects that decorate our lives? As Joan receives a package from her father by way of her late great-aunt, we contemplate a life lived through its possessions—the things acquired and passed down and that hold the stories of lives swept away by illness or death.

Finalist for the Giller Prize and winner of the Saskatchewan Book of the Year, Casino & Other Stories pulls us beneath the surface of convention into uncharted and often unpredictable emotional territory. Wry and intelligent, humane and touching, Bonnie Burnard’s stories seduce and then surprise us with a sense of the familiar finally understood, and of passion recognized.

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19 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 28, 2013

About the author

Bonnie Burnard was a Canadian novelist and short story writer.

She grew up in Forest, Ontario and lived much of her life in Saskatchewan. Burnard based her books on her roots in Southwestern Ontario.

In 1989 Women of Influence won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for a first novel. In 1995 she was awarded the Marian Engel Award, and in 1999, she won the Giller Prize for her novel, A Good House.

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