Wallflowers
Subtitle: stories
By: Eliza Robertson
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780143191407
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Canadian Short stories
Description: "From windswept Pacific beaches to the inner reaches of the human heart, Wallflower is a shimmering and often surprising journey of discovery, with many unexpected turns along the way. Robertson has created a cast of unique and wholly engaging characters. Here there are swindlers and innocents, unlikely heroes and gritty survivors; they teach us how to trap humming birds, relinquish dreams gracefully, and feed raccoons without getting bitten. 'Wish you were here's' letters on a road trip parallel a woman's painful trip into her family's dysfunctional past; reminiscences of a beloved sibling are inextricably bound up with calamity ... and roommate problems lead to a surprising (and skin-crawling) revelation. Robertson smashes stereotypes even as she shows us remarkable new ways of experiencing the world, and of relating to our fellow human beings."--
Notes: Issued also as an electronic format.

2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Table of contents: title: Who will water the wallflowers? --; title: Ship's log --; title: My sister sang --; title: Worried woman's guide --; title: Nightwalk --; title: Where have you fallen, have you fallen? --; title: Roadnotes --; title: L'Etranger --; title: Electric lady rag --; title: We are as mayflies --; title: Missing tiger, camels found alive --; title: Sea life --; title: Thoughts, hints and anecdotes concerning points of taste and the art of making one's self agreeable: a handbook for ladies --; title: Good for the bones --; title: Here be dragons --; title: Slimebank taxonomy --; title: We walked on water.