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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.
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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.
Now available as an E-book !
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.
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.
"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