This is a diverse series of short stories that span a period from the 1940's through to the 1970s. Among them, In "Homeless," a little girls builds a house for herself with very rudimentary materials, and comes to grief with the attempt; a housewife recalls her first memory of snow, which is in short supply in coastal, British Columbia.

In Back to Normal, a young man returns home after a long absence, only to learn his father has become a part of a medical experiment. In Courney's Reunion, a young girl turns to drastic means to reunite her family, torn apart by scandal.

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