Where We Live
- Publisher
- NeWest Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2024
- Subjects
- Literary, Siblings, City Life
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- ISBN
- 9781774390894
- Publish Date
- Mar 2024
- List Price
- $11.99
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Description
The third and final novel in the Lund sibling series, Where We Live continues the story of four Vancouverites, separated in childhood, reunited and now middle-aged, as they navigate urban life, work, relationships, and parenting in the late 2010s. With their familial bond shaped by their divergent adult experiences as well as their shared early childhood in a rural West Coast community, the lives of these siblings cross, separate, and rejoin yet again, in paths informed by nature and by nurture. Subject to the pressures of their environment and remembered or forgotten family history each sibling struggles to realize their aspirations in their search for a true home.
About the author
Karen Hofmann grew up in the Okanagan Valley and taught creative writing at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia, for many years. She now divides her time between Vancouver Island and the BC Interior. A first collection of poetry, Water Strider, was published by Frontenac House in 2008 and shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Prize. Her first novel, After Alice, was published by NeWest Press in 2014, and a second novel, What is Going to Happen Next, in 2017. Her short fiction has won the Okanagan Fiction Contest three times, and "The Burgess Shale" was shortlisted at the 2012 CBC Short Fiction Contest. Karen Hofmann is an avid walker, and her writing explores the landscapes, both rural and urban, of British Columbia as well as the personalities and social dynamics of the inhabitants. Her latest novel, A Brief View from the Coastal Suite, was released in spring 2021.
www.karenhofmann.com
Excerpt: Where We Live (by (author) Karen Hofmann)
Before
December, 2008
The message pops up in the airport in Managua, as soon as Ben’s smartphone is picking up Wi-Fi again. In the main concourse, there is a highly polished granite floor, so smooth it seems like a mirror, showing everyone what they look like from below, and the usual row of clocks showing different times. Habana, La Paz, Londres, Los Angeles, as if anyone needed to know. As if it isn’t always now, wherever you are. He almost doesn’t read the message, which is only from his sister Cleo, until a word in the first line catches his eye. Hospital. He skims the message. Cliff, mudslide, spine, intensive care, surgery.
Bummer.
It’s stopped him in his tracks and now Alison has noticed and turned around, stopped too. He clicks his phone off and slides it into the pocket of his shorts, takes a couple of longer strides to catch up with her.
Everything okay, dude? she asks.
Yeah, he says. Something minor.
Shit; he wishes he hadn’t seen that message.
It won’t take long to get through customs, Alison says. It’s not a busy airport.
Through the glass front he can see a blue sky streaked with the kinds of clouds that say the wind and the water are alive. There are palm trees. And in the distance, far out there, a volcano.
He wants to stop and look at the scenery but Alison is leading him through the concourse, to the baggage carousels. The light and the siren go on just as they arrive, and luggage starts appearing on the belt. He sees his bag, first, an olive-green duffel, and then the long case with his board. He thinks he should look for Alison’s and scoop it too, but he can’t remember exactly which are hers, to be honest, and she grabs them herself before they look familiar. Slings a carrier over her shoulder, pops out the handle of her little wheeled hard case, begins leading the way out of the crowd.