A poignant, unflinching debut story collection set in northern
Canada.
SUCH A LOVELY AFTERNOON is a dazzling debut collection from
award-winning Yukon writer Patti Flather.
A feisty young tomboy grapples with gender roles with sometimes
hilarious results, a refugee single dad struggles for dignity in his
northern community, and a malfunctioning compost toilet and wacky
neighbours upturn a woman's island cabin life, among other tales.
Against vivid landscapes from Canada's West Coast to Hong Kong to the
Yukon, Flather reveals poignant beauty, compassion and humour in
everyday lives, with characters searching for identity and belonging,
delving into their resilience and humanity.
"Fall into SUCH A LOVELY AFTERNOON in the middle of the night. These
take-no-prisoners, let-your-hair-down stories are a heart-to-heart with
your BFF about love, loss, and the lives of women making themselves up
in the late 20th century, choice by choice, at the edge of the world.
Patti Flather's stories are literary lightning."--Linda Svendsen,
Guggenheim winner and author of Marine Life and Sussex Drive
"Patti Flather's tender stories transported me in place and time and
into the lives of characters who were rendered so powerfully that they,
by turn, broke my heart and made me smile with laughter. SUCH A LOVELY
AFTERNOON is the fiction debut of a seasoned and accomplished
storyteller."--Kevin Chong, author of The Double Life of Benson Yu
"In story after story, Patti Flather sweeps aside the veil that blurs
our days, giving us glimpses of the raw reality lurking behind our
everyday lives: a crude remark from a friend, a brief but vicious
argument, landing a dead-end job--and then it's back to the ordinary.
Her vision is like a flash of muscle under torn skin, reminding us that
one of these days, maybe tomorrow, the skin is not going to
heal."--Wayne Grady, author of The Good Father
Fiction. Short Stories.
