at the edge

(winnipeg: unlimited editions, 2013)

16 writers…13 chapters…one defining incident.

a benign september morning brings strangers to an edge none could anticipate. a besieged father, an agatha christie expert, an incidental thief, enduring lovers, and runaway children (among others) converge on a university quadrangle spoiled by a gaping construction hole. all are absorbed by the complexity of their individual worlds, yet each one manages to skirt the danger—except one. in a most unexpected ending, we learn how that came to be, and why.

two of canada’s award-winning novelists, gail anderson-dargatz and jack hodgins, joined with project coordinators marjorie anderson and deborah schnitzer (two contributors in the dropped threadsanthologies) and 12 other writers from across canada and abroad — ingeborg boyens, arwen brenneman, ophelia celine, k.w. dyer, katherin edwards, elissa frittaion, ryder hawkins, elaine hayes, matthew hooton, blanche howard, heather jessup, sarah selecky — to create this novel of intrigue. (in an added twist, the authors’ names are not attributed to the chapters each wrote.)