She likes people who work hard when needed, and one of her favourite lines was: There are people who turn up their sleeves and there are people who turn up their noses and there are people who never turn up at all. Some startling incidents liven the plot, but the highlight of the story is a quote from the narrators mother. In The Ninth Concession, the male narrator tells of his adolescent friendship with a boy named Allan Klassen, whose dad is wealthy and runs a tobacco farm that, at harvest time, needs help from Mexican workers.

Then he returns it to the airport, contents intact, with an envelope containing $500 meant to cover the inconvenience.

The narrator of What Exactly Do You Think Youre Looking At? makes a habit of picking up someone elses suitcase in an airport, taking it somewhere and looking through its contents, hoping hell find something unusual. All this running around trying to please people. ∺t other times, though, she wanted to flip over the kitchen table with the breakfast dishes still on it and delete every email and burn the whole place down. I agree to the Terms and Conditions, Cookie and Privacy Policies, and CASL agreement. Paying a bill, or tidying up her desk at work, or arriving at an appointment on time or even, imagine it, five minutes early. Sometimes, she was almost embarrassed by the profound sense of satisfaction she could derive from completing a single basic task. The dialogue is great, and Amys reaction to everything is beautifully articulated, as in this example: Her main motive is to have Matt do some work while he is at her place. In Once Removed Matt, wife Amy and baby Ella are invited for a meal by Matts elderly distant relative, Greet. There are some memorable moments, including Gunthers being squeezed by a snake. MacLeod juxtaposes a rabbits life with that of Davids family.ĭavids three kids are grown up and his wife Sarah feels its time to split but they could still communicate. It is about a middle-aged man, David, and his pet rabbit, Gunther.

The opening story, Lagomorph, is one of the best and was rewarded with an O. Alexanders short stories are long-ish the eight in his new book average about 30 pages each.

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