Hour of the Crab

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Publication Year:
2021

ISBN-13: 9781773101613

<p><b>Co-Winner, Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction</b></p><p>Patricia Robertson’s new collection of short fiction, <i>Hour of the Crab</i>, is a work of insight and mastery, each story demonstrating an original vision, intriguing characters, and sophisticated skill. </p><p>Readers will travel with Robertson’s vivid characters, sharing their journeys, their challenges, their complicated choices. They will also discover other worlds &#8212; from an eleventh-century monastery in France to a near-future British Columbia where apocalyptic wildfires seem to be never-ending. </p><p>A young woman discovers the corpse of a Moroccan teenager washed up on the beach in southern Spain and sets out to find his family in a gesture that destabilizes her own. An international aid worker shares her house with the very real ghost of a gardener’s boy. The last speaker of a dying Norse-like language carves the words he remembers into the stones of his house. </p><p>Urgent and evocative, immersed in issues of our time, the stories of <i>Hour of the Crab</i> reveal Robertson’s ability to draw in her readers with the heightened realism of her imagined worlds. </p>