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The running trees : stories / Amber McMillan.

by McMillan, Amber, 1981-

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Goose Lane Editions, 2021.

9781773101699 (trade pbk)

218 p. ; 20 cm.

Conversation #112, the dinner party -- Conversation #100, missing feathers -- Conversation #34, the phone call -- Conversation #214, the book club act I -- Conversation #65, the legion -- Conversation #115, the running trees -- Conversation #81, two kids and a dog -- Conversation #214, the book club act II -- Conversation #416, pick up -- Conversation #40, Pluto of happiness -- Conversation #33, the arsonist -- Conversation #214, the book club act III -- Conversation #787, coffee date -- Conversation #88, crying over spilled water -- Conversation #1, Daniel and Julia and me.

"A striking original, deftly humorous collection of stories that considers the quest for truth: how we come to it or alternatively avoid it. A fervently comic debut, The Running Trees leads readers into a series of conversations -- through phonelines, acts in a play, and a rewound recording of a police interrogation -- to reveal characters in fumbling bouts of brutality, reflection, isolation, and love. The relationship between two siblings disintegrates after one asks the other for the pen; a professor and his former student get drinks years after a 'romantic' encounter; a book club meets only to find that they have wildly different opinions about a new memoir about their town; and a long-haired feline contemplates existence and consciousness while his cohabitant licks his butthole. Whimsical, unconventional, humorous, and always pitch-perfect, The Running Trees explores how we desperately try to communicate with each other amid the gaps in meaning we create."--Publisher.

Short stories, Canadian.

Canadian fiction.

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