Description
A girl receives a bedtime visit from a drunken party guest, who will haunt her fantasies for years. A young mother discovers underneath the wallpaper a striking portrait that awakens inconvenient desires. A divorced man distracts himself from the mess he’s made by flirting with a stranger. These intimate, immersive stories explore life's watershed moments, in which seemingly insignificant details—a pot of hyacinths, a freshly painted yellow wall—and the most chance of encounters come to exert a tidal pull. Set in the swinging sixties and each decade since, Cocktail reveals the schism between the lives we build up around us and our deepest hidden selves.
Endorsements
Shortlisted for the 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award
Longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
Shortlisted for the New Brunswick 2023 Mrs. Dunster’s Award for Fiction
One of the Globe and Mail's "Sixty-Two Books to Read This Fall"
Listed in CBC Books Fiction to Read in Fall 2023
A Miramichi Reader Best Book of 2023
A Tyee Best Book of 2023
"A writer to watch." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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