Loose End
Coyote is to CanLit what KD Lang is to country music: a beautifully odd fixture.—Ottawa XPress(Ottawa XPress)Ivan's genius here, as always, is in the composition of a story—like a most accomplished photographer, he knows exactly what to let into the frame and what to crop out, where to center the image and how to pull the most interesting elements into the foreground. Many of the stories in the collection are moments or stories that could happen to anyone, but it takes the miraculous skill of an Ivan Coyote to turn those rough, muddy bits into the collection of jewels inLoose End.—gendercrash.com(gendercrash.com)With stirring emotional simplicity Coyote lays out adroit observations of fellow denizens...virtually every one of the book's 48 pieces registers strongly...—The Vancouver Review(The Vancouver Review)[Ivan E. Coyote] is a remarkable storyteller....Loose Endis like Narnia for the bent. To read it is to open a secret passageway into a world that is, well, open.... This is Coyote's strongest work to date.—T.L. Cowan,Herizons(Herizons)Some of the most touching and funniest stories deal with the complications of living, as the author does, on the borders of established gender roles. Others simply observe the world, reminding us that the wonderful, the magical, can be found in small things.—GLBTRT Newsletter, American Library Association (ALA GLBTNewsletter)