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High Heels for Ken Veals is a coming-of-strength-story about a rowdy tribe of young sisters in a small Alberta town. Their life is influenced by the an adjoined RCMP barracks, and their daily routine is influenced by babysitters, goat-soft sweaters, constable crushes, and beefsteak tomatoes. Living in this small town, each girl-in-the-making must decide who she wants to be.

In short, enigmatic, alternating chapters, over three decisive Wednesdays in three successive decades, the story of the Burrows family is teased out with measured restraint from its blistering beginnings to its nuanced conclusion." MostlyFiction.com On a Wednesday in July 1961, Jacqueline Burrows begins her day perched on the cool concrete of her front steps, smoking. Jacqueline is the mother of three children, including her sweet, difficult d...

At a dinner party, Beth -- thirty-six, single, and working as much overtime as she can get her hands on -- impulsively announces that she's going to spend a night on Vancouver's mean streets in commiseration of the homeless. Unexpectedly, her hosts' son Mason -- nine years old, small for his age, intense, intellectual and so shy he can't speak in company -- whispers in his mother's ear that he wants to go with her. Mason's parents, good limous...

Lee Kvern's much-anticipated new collection contains stories which revolve around humanity in all its flawed glory: an artist's girlfriend dies by mistake, a mother holds surveillance on her son's foray into drugs, a sibling's jealousy toward her sickly brother, a father's death, a mother's fear for her unbridled, grade-two son, a woman with a hijab in the mordern world of Save-on groceries. An arborist, his wife and a Shar-Pei are in need of ...