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Sometimes it’s the little things in life that make all the difference—like chromosomes, sperm, tiny bugs or an endangered seabird that nests in an old-growth forest. But, what’s big or what’s little depends entirely on your perspective.

At three feet ten inches tall, Faye Pearson knows all about perspective. A scientist doing entomological research in the tallest trees on Vancouver Island, Faye’s struggle to function in a world not made for people her size is poignant and heartwarming.

When a group protesting logging in the area arrives, Faye and her assistant Paul are slowly drawn into the conflict and into the lives of the protesters.

What reviewers are saying about Falling From Grace

“Falling from Grace creates an ecology all its own, one that joins the unlikeliest elements to reinstruct us in what it means to be human and to reawaken us to the world’s wonder.” - Nino Ricci, winner of the 2008 Governor General’s Award for Fiction

“Falling From Grace is a moving and heartfelt story about the enormous power of small things to shape the world. With her keen eye for microscopic detail, Ann Eriksson evokes the awesome beauty and complexity of the Canadian Pacific Northwest landscape, from the perfect symbiosis of flora and fauna to the conflicts, sometimes noble, often tragic, between nature’s ecologies and our powerful human desires.” - Ruth Ozeki, author of All Over Creation

2009 Brindle & Glass

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Replete with coyotes, dog-headed gods and broken tractors, In The Hands Of Anubis is a wonderfully playful exploration of human relationships and the unexpected guides we meet in life.

Trevor Wallace, a tractor salesman with a lost childhood and a stalled relationship, is en route to Africa on business. In the Frankfurt airport he stumbles over the bag of Constance Ebenezer, a gregarious old lady travelling the world with extraordinary contraband in her luggage. Marooned briefly in Cairo together, these two unlikely companions embark on an emotional journey that turns Trevor's predictable and well-ordered world upside down.

What Readers and Reviewers Are Saying

"In this sensitive, heartfelt novel Ann Eriksson shows how a transformational relationship can move us from one sphere to another, with unexpected discoveries, both wise and funny, along the way." - Edeet Ravel, author of Ten Thousand Lovers

"Now this is a love story! Ann Eriksson tells us a love story that includes the contemporary resistance to the very idea of love. It includes travel, mythology, sex, humour, an absolute abundance of fascinating characters. It's about the many and unlikely ways in which we seek happiness." - Robert Kroetsch

"In the Hands of Anubis is a lovely and loving exploration of hope and human connection. Constance is ...unforgettable."- Candace Fertile, Times Colonist

2003 Turnstone Press

If you denied your loved one's last dying wish, would you blame them for haunting you?

Maggie Cooper has lost sight of the living. Three years after her husband Peter's death, Maggie is estranged from her daughter and removed from her son. She wears Peter's one remaining item of clothing - a spattered sweatshirt - and spends more than the occasional night sleeping in her car, away from the memories of their once-shared bed.

Obsessed with making the perfect basket to contain her late husband's ashes, Maggie spends her days gathering kelp at the local beach and weaving in her sunroom. Now the island property where she and Peter had first built their lives together has been sold and Maggie has no choice but to return there to pack what belongings remain and face the ghosts of the past.

What Readers and Reviewers Are Saying

"Grief is as individual as a fingerprint. Unblinking and original. Maggie's mourning is absolutely her own - and every reader will identify with it." - Katherine Ashenburg, author of the Mourner's Dance

"... a luxuriously visual rendering ... Eriksson's writing grows rich as the story develops ... with moments of gorgeous and powerful depiction." - Canadian Literature

"Ann Eriksson shows an assurance beyond what might be expected from a first-time novelist." - Joe Wiebe, Vancouver Sun

"Ann Eriksson's first novel, Decomposing Maggie, is as heart-wrenching as it is life-affirming." Karolle Walls, Herizons Magazine