The mercy of the tide by keith rosson5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Publisher: Meerkat Press ISBN: 9781946154521 Number of pages: 206 Weight: 294 g Dimensions: 228 x 152 x 152 mm MEDIA REVIEWS With grace, imagination, and a brazen gallows humour, Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons merges the fantastic and the everyday, and includes new work as well as award-winning favourites. In "Brad Benske and the Hand of Light", an estranged husband seeks his wife's whereabouts through a fortune-teller after she absconds with a cult, and the returning soldier in "Homecoming" navigates the strange and ghostly confines of his hometown, as well as the boundaries of his own grief. ![]() In "Dunsmuir", a newly sober husband buys a hearse to help his wife spread her sister's ashes, while "The Lesser Horsemen" illustrates what happens when God instructs the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to go on a team-building cruise as a way of boosting their frayed morale. ![]() Award-winning author Keith Rosson once again delves into notions of family, identity, indebtedness, loss, and hope, with the surefooted merging of literary fiction and magical realism he's explored in previous novels. ![]()
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