Skin
eBook - ePub

Skin

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

About this book

Now, for the first time, a blistering book of short fiction from one of Canada’s most loved novelists.

In Skin, Catherine Bush plunges into the vortex of all that shapes us. Summoning relationships between the human and more-than-human, she explores a world where touch and intimacy are both desirable and fraught.

Ranging from the realistic to the speculative, Bush’s stories tackle the condition of our restless, unruly world amidst the tumult of viruses, climate change, and ecological crises. Here, she brings to life unusual and perplexing intimacies: a man falls in love with the wind; a substitute teacher’s behaviour with a student brings unforeseen risks; a woman becomes fixated on offering foot washes to strangers.

Bold, vital, and unmistakably of the moment, Skin gives a charged and animating voice to the question of how we face the world and how, in the process, we discover tenderness and allow ourselves to be transformed.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Praise for Skin
  3. Also by Catherine Bush
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Benevolence: An East Village Story
  9. Skin
  10. Animals
  11. Voices Over Water
  12. The International Headache Conference
  13. Touch
  14. Breath
  15. Camouflage
  16. Roxanne (after Edmond Rostand)
  17. Mortals
  18. Derecho
  19. Glacial
  20. In the Park, the Great Horned Owl Summons His Mate
  21. Acknowledgements
  22. About the Author