A collection of short fiction, a winner of Canada's Governor-General's Literary Award, includes the title story about a boy whose life is changed after his parents take into their home a tough, adolescent drifter. Reprint. 25,000 first printing....
When recently widowed journalist Tim Wakelin heads north in search of a story about a local healer named Caroline Troyer, he enters a world that is real yet strange. Familiar landmarks disappear and extraordinary events unfold as his life becomes int...