The Running Trees

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Publication Year:
2021

ISBN-13: 9781773101705

<p><b>Finalist, New Brunswick Book Award (Fiction) and Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction<br>A striking original, deftly humorous collection of stories that considers the quest for truth: how we come to it or alternatively avoid it.</b></p><p>A fervently comic debut, <i>The Running Trees</i> leads readers into a series of conversations &#8212; through phonelines, acts in a play, and a rewound recording of a police interrogation &#8212; to reveal characters in fumbling bouts of brutality, reflection, isolation, and love.</p><p>The relationship between two siblings disintegrates after one asks the other for <i>the</i> pen; a professor and his former student get drinks years after a &#34;romantic&#34; encounter; a book club meets only to find that they have wildly different opinions about a new memoir about their town; and a long-haired feline contemplates existence and consciousness while his cohabitant licks his own butthole.</p><p>Whimsical, unconventional, humorous, and always pitch-perfect, <i>The Running Trees</i> explores how we desperately try to communicate with each other amid the gaps in meaning we create.</p>