Sugar Mountain

by Erica Plouffe Lazure

Drawing from a range of youthful voices and adventures, Sugar Mountain explores how children learn to deal with hard truths about themselves, and others, and the great wild world. From roller-skating away the grief of a parent, to soapy pranks by a band of camp bullies, to confronting an angry mass of waterfowl in the throes of a pillow fight, each chapter offers a tiny ticket back to a time when the world only seemed less complicated.

“A stunning sequence of stories about childhood shot through with irresistible yearning, beauty and humour. It’s written in a freewheeling prose that unfurls with detail after gorgeous detail piling up in the sentences. Quirky behaviour, teenage mischief, letdowns, unfulfilled dreams, romance – this novella really gets to the heart of what childhood feels like.”
~Michael Loveday, author of Three Men on the Edge

58 pages, Paperback

Published October 24, 2020

Reviews

[Stephen Page · Rating 5 out of 5]

There are so many writers buzzing about the flash fiction genre today, you might think of the writers as bees and the genre as a beehive. If those similes were applied, Erica Lazure would surely be the Queen.

[Laura Besley · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed the tapestry of stories that makes up this coming-of-age novella-in-flash. My favourite was 'The Italic' about a Japanese foreign exchange student and two American girls and ordering pizza.