Some Hellish
Ashley Raskovsky
, Marilyn Stanley
, Cassandra Schiemann
, Shelley Gibbs
, Marie Raynard
, Jude Castillo
, Mary Therrien
, Keanan Byggdin
, Thelma Ball
, Evelyn Kulchar
, Stef Novakowski
, Andrea Pole
, Teree Hokanson
, Chris Carvalho
, Jilanna Eagles
, Jacob Cebulak
, Hoda Montazeri
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Noelle Walsh
, Monica Geerts
, Remi Gunn
, Dawn Macdonald
, Deana Bueley
, Richard Scarsbrook
, Derek Davidson
, Sandra Furlotte
, Dani Kat
, Jocelyn Heisel
, Barry Kazimer
, Catherine Booker
, Beth Follett
, Sarah Schwartz
, Sandra Perry
, Brenda Vaccarello
, Janet Baron
, Heather Norris
, Linda Leitch
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Megan Bishop
, Crystal Inwood
, Carson Loveless
, Maureen Brownlee
, Vanessa Charbonneau-Dinelle
, KERRILYNN SWEENEY
, Deb Philippon
, Joe Mitchell
, Melissa Poremba
, Yolande Thivierge
, Alice Meems
, Nicki D'Angelo
, LJ Law
, Wanda Brine
, Melissa Kohlman
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Natasa Ilic
, Samantha Fitzpatrick
, Margaret McKay
, Alex Henderson
, Kim Cappellina
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Vicki Bedford
, Rachel Edmonds
, Julie Forrest
, Rhona Brinkman
, Jane Graham
, Lynn Andrews
, Jennifer Beyak
, John Bell
, Ron Thompson
, Paula Adam
, Heather Sibley
, Filomena Falocco
, Anne Range
, Lynn Hallson
, Christine Lion
, Marin Beck
, Ken Gilmour
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Kathleen Mary Kilmer
, Lucy Cappiello
, Laura Peters
, Heather Belliveau
, Paula Ritchie
, Ellen Clarke
, Caroline Woodward
, Lisa Mallia
, Huguette Lemieux
, Benita Hartwell
, Fin Macdonald
, Margaret Jones
, Elaine Baptie
, Randi Ann Doll
, Janice Cournoyer
, Robert Hykawy
, Susi Lovell
, Lynn Bechtel
, Mary Lester
, C. Ray
, Denise Duvall
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Caleb Nault
, Penelope Penner
, Frances Peck
, Joann Horgan
, finn mulryan
, Anndee Newson
, Debbie Rodgers
, Jasmeet Gill
, jane luce
, Shannon Lee
, Chris Lantz
, Christopher Rossignol
, Judith Pearson
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Herring is a hapless lobster fisher lost in an unexceptional life, bored of thinking the same old thoughts. One December day, following a hunch, he cuts a hole in the living room floor and installs a hoist, altering the course of everything in his life. His wife Euna leaves with their children. He buries the family dog in a frozen grave on Christmas Eve. He and his friend Gerry crash his truck into a field, only to be rescued by a passing group of Tibetan monks.
During the spring lobster season, Herring and Gerry find themselves caught in a storm front. Herring falls overboard miles from the harbour, is lost at sea for days, and assumed to be drowned. And then, he is found, miraculously, alive. Having come so near to death, he is forced to confront the things he fears the most: love, friendship, belief, and himself.
Some Hellish is a story about anguish and salvation, the quiet grace and patience of transformation, the powers of addiction and fear, the plausibility of forgiveness, and the immense capacity of friendship and of love.
