"Everything But the Truth" is a stunning debut of short fiction by
Christopher McPherson, a carpenter by trade, who constructs, with
disarming detail, stories of desire and loss, and the thin line between
truth and fiction in people's lives. These are confessionals by
characters whose emotional lives are laid bare, from a lovelorn
hippo-keeper at the zoo, to an ill mother who has an affair with her
vegetable garden. Versatile in style and theme, these narratives are
driven by humour, grief, and the search for reason in a complicated
world.