Mizzly Fitch struggles to come to terms with the destructive forces of the sea, the deaths of fellow fishermen, and his growing religious despair, which pits him against his mother, who has hopes that he will become a minister. This entralling and powerful novel set in Nova Scotia transforms tragedy into a vibrant celebration of the human capacity to endure.
Mizzly Fitch struggles to come to terms with the destructive forces of the sea, the deaths of fellow fishermen, and his growing religious despair, whi...
This is a collection of stories about men and women and children who stumble upon crossroads. Their stories are parable, they are allegory, they are realism and short fiction -- and they are stories that will enter into you and make you part of them, so that the mystery and the brightness, the living and the dying, the searching and the praying, the love and the anger and the majesty become your own. It is another morning and another place, a rich and penetrating landscape of the spirit.
Seventeen of these stories have been published over the past ten years in periodicals, the other eight...
This is a collection of stories about men and women and children who stumble upon crossroads. Their stories are parable, they are allegory, they are r...