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Kristen den Hartog's Fiction Water Wings After a string of failed relationships, beautiful, vampish Darlene is getting married again, to a man tied to the family in ways few people realize. Her grown daughters, Vivian and Hannah, are home for the wedding, and find themselves caught up in memories that swirl around the death of their father, killed in a bizarre boating accident when they were children. The story moves between past and present as the seedy underbelly of the town is exposed. "Kristen den Hartog's dark, tender first novel reveals her as a sort of literary
younger sister to Alice Munro [with] a knack for dropping shocks into a
plot as casually as pebbles from a dock." Quill & Quire
The Perpetual Ending Jane Ingrams is a writer in Vancouver who creates rich, fabulist tales with her lover, Simon, a gifted illustrator. Estranged from her parents and haunted by her secret family history, Jane finds solace in these stories of extraordinary characters: a girl who trades her laughter for a scalpful of cobwebs; a lonely child with an unquenchable thirst; an orphan with the gift, or curse, of prophecy. Within these enchanting tales lie clues to Jane's past - including hints about her mirror-image twin, Eugenie, of whom Simon knows nothing. "Den Hartog reveals a massive imagination in [the] stories-within-stories.... Her heroines are horned, telepathic, lying, hairless, two-left-footed freaks ... both playful and horrifying." The Globe and Mail
Origin of Haloes When aspiring gymnast Kay Clancy finds herself pregnant at sixteen, she admits to her high school sweetheart Joe LeBlanc that he is not the father - and leads him to believe the wrong man is. Her lie sparks a series of tragic events that reverberate well into the future, long after Joe vanishes late in Kay's third pregnancy, during their happiest times. Years later, Margar, the mischievous daughter Joe never knew, is determined to find her father, whom she eerily resembles. Unfolding in Olympic-year intervals, Origin of Haloes is a tale of love, betrayal, and loss. "Kristen den Hartog has captured some elusive, heart-tugging truths about families in her powerful, achingly beautiful third novel, Origin of Haloes... A story of dizzying complexity and depth." Montreal Gazette Hear Kristen den Hartog read from Origin of Haloes at Authors Aloud
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