Small Change

Authors: Hay, Elizabeth
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
BISAC/Subject: FIC000000, FIC071000, FIC019000, FIC029000
ISBN: 9781551994345, Related ISBNs: 0771037910, 0771039530, 0771073976, 1551994348, 9780771037917
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 256,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: These twenty superbly crafted linked stories navigate the difficult realm of friendship, charting its beginnings and ends, its intimacies and betrayals, its joys and humiliations. A mother learns something of the nature of love from watching her young daughter as she falls in and out of favour with a neighbourhood girl. An intricate story of two women reveals a friendship held together by the steely bonds of passivity. A chance sighting in a library prompts a woman to recall the “unconsummated courtship” she was drawn into by a male colleague. With trenchant insight, uncommon honesty, and dark humour, Elizabeth Hay probes the precarious bonds that exist between friends. The result is an emotionally raw and provocative collection of stories that will resonate with readers long after the final page.
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