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Lake Effect
This collection of stories charts the emotional lives of characters in the midst of private sorrows and triumphs. Each story, set in the cities and towns around the Great Lakes, reveals the author’s fierce love for a landscape merciless and opulent, yet speaks with eloquence about its inhabitants.
The humanitarian crisis in Thunder Bay is seen from the perspective of a police officer whose stepson is missing; fearing he will be found, like so many others, in the McIntyre River, his mother’s grief causes an insurmountable rift. Crumbling buildings, high rent and condo developments in Toronto are playfully satirized. A young mother waits inside a Chicago-area prison to find out if funding for the Prison-Mother Baby program will continue. A man drives from Traverse City, Michigan in the midst of a lake effect storm to transport his Iranian-Canadian girlfriend across the border illegally. A Canadian mother befriends an American woman, employed at Target, whose desperation for a baby leads her to seek the advice of spiritualists in Lily Dale, New York.
Topical and arresting, these tales showcase an author who writes with insight and sensitivity.
The humanitarian crisis in Thunder Bay is seen from the perspective of a police officer whose stepson is missing; fearing he will be found, like so many others, in the McIntyre River, his mother’s grief causes an insurmountable rift. Crumbling buildings, high rent and condo developments in Toronto are playfully satirized. A young mother waits inside a Chicago-area prison to find out if funding for the Prison-Mother Baby program will continue. A man drives from Traverse City, Michigan in the midst of a lake effect storm to transport his Iranian-Canadian girlfriend across the border illegally. A Canadian mother befriends an American woman, employed at Target, whose desperation for a baby leads her to seek the advice of spiritualists in Lily Dale, New York.
Topical and arresting, these tales showcase an author who writes with insight and sensitivity.
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Published June 12, 2022
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About the author
Dayle Furlong
4 books10 followersDayle Furlong has a Masters degree in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh. She was shortlisted for december Magazine's 2018 Curt Johnson Memorial Prose Award in the USA. Her stories have been published in Canada, the US and New Zealand. She currently works as a mentor in the Creative Writing Department at University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies.
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February 21, 2023
Each story was beautiful and complete but I still wanted to know more of the characters' lives.
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