Danuta Gleed Literary Award finalist
City of Victoria Butler Book Prize finalist
Intensely imaginative and darkly emotional, the weird and wonderful
stories in Double Dutch deftly alternate between fantasy and reality,
transporting readers into strange worlds that are at once both familiar
and uncanny -- where animals are more human, and people more mysterious,
than they first appear.
Shape-shifters, doppelgangers, and spirits inhabit the extraordinary
worlds depicted in Trunkey's stories: a single mother believes her
toddler is the reincarnation of a terrorist; Ronald Reagan's body double
falls in love with the first lady; a man grieves for his wife after a
bear takes over her body. The collection also includes moving tales
grounded in painful and touching reality: a young deaf girl visits
Niagara Falls before she goes blind; an elephant named Topsy is killed
on Coney Island by Thomas Edison in 1903; and a woman learns the truth
about her son's disappearance while searching with her husband in the
Canadian Rockies.
This enchanting and, at times, heartbreaking debut collection of stories
hails the arrival of an exceptional new literary talent.