Lake Effect
Sandra Furlotte
, Rosa Cross
, Rodney Cross
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Deana Bueley
, Marilyn Stanley
, Penelope Penner
, Marjorie Roy
, Sarah Schwartz
, Rebecca Dixon
, Joshua Lewis
, Joann Horgan
, Jude Castillo
, Hoda Montazeri
, Caley Clements
, Benita Hartwell
, Cassandra Schiemann
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Stephanie Baird
, Jessica Trento
, sarah campbell
, Meradith Anderson
, Chris Carvalho
, Rianna Mcgarry
, Deb Philippon
, Kathleen Mary Kilmer
, Thelma Ball
, Andrea Pole
, diana kirkwood
, Andrea Gillespie
, Vanessa Charbonneau-Dinelle
, Jen Bailey
, Noelle Walsh
, Julie Kaniak
, Linda Leitch
, Mary Therrien
, LJ Law
, Natasa Ilic
, Tara Murphy
, Jean Keetch
, Susan Toy
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Gabriella Fars
, P. Thompson
, Debra Fisher
, Huguette Lemieux
, Barry Kazimer
, Alice Smith
, Sunshine Gudlaugson
, Hilary Squires
, Patricia Johnson
, Tina May
, angie kuhnle
, zelda dwyer
, Paula Adam
, Liz Bay
, Shayla Bradley
, Beth Dekoker
, Phreia Von Woolfgard
, Kirsten Kennedy
, Ken Gilmour
, Holly Douglas
, Audrey Borg
, Paula Ritchie
, Maria Mclean
, Jennifer Beyak
, Lori Watson
, Elaine Baptie
, Mary Boulos
, Rachel Edmonds
, Margaret Jones
, Megan Brodie
, Brenda Vaccarello
, Tiffany C
, Janice Cournoyer
, Emily Zb
, Elle Andra-Warner
, Patricia McKeown
, Barbara McEwen
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, VJ Hatton
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Reilly Robson
, Elizabeth Obermeyer
, Deborah Kennedy
, Karen Kendrick
, Robert Hykawy
, Ashley Pamenter
, Denise Duvall
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Sharlene Ketelaar
, Kelly Enright
, Anndee Newson
, Melissa Poremba
, Catherine Westerberg
, Lisa Mallia
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Janet Miller
, Filomena Falocco
, Debbie Rodgers
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Wanda Brine
, Jody Spencer
, Gwynn Scheltema
, KYRYN SWANSON
, Debbie Youngman
, Shawna Sanderson
, Crystal Inwood
, Sean Pynaert
, Rhona Brinkman
, Sarah Van Dyk
, Siobhan Monaghan
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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.
