This cake is for the party
Subtitle: stories
By: by Sarah Selecky
Publisher: T. Allen Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780887625251
Subjects: Canadian Short stories; Authors, Canadian (English)
Description: A woman who plans to conceive ends up in the arms of her husband's best friend; a man who baby-sits a neglected four-year-old ends up questioning his own dysfunctional relationship; a chance encounter at a gala event causes a woman to remember when she volunteered for a nightmarish drug-testing clinic. In "Standing up for Janey", a woman discovers that her best friend who is about to get married has just had an affair.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Throwing cotton; title: Watching Atlas; title: How healthy are you?; title: Go-Manchura; title: Standing up for Janey; title: Where are you coming from, sweetheart?; title: Prognosis; title: Paul Farenbacher's yard sale; title: This is how we grow as humans; title: One thousand wax Buddhas.