Why do so many great authors come out of Newfoundland? It's a very profilic place. This book is sort of post-modern; not a whole lot happens; it's just a series of vignettes that weave together about seemingly unrelated people who are actually tangled up in a web. Think of it as the Robert Altman's Short Cuts of Canadian literature.

What's remarkable about the book isn't the plot (or plots) but the author's style. She has a knack of catching the mundane details, the shape of an egg-cup, a description of the medicine cabinet, the sneer of a rude cashier, and painting them in language that is descriptive yet spare. I could learn a lot from this style. I'll be interested to read this young author's next work.