This cake is for the party

stories

229 pages

English language

Published Jan. 1, 2010 by T. Allen Publishers.

ISBN:
978-0-88762-525-1
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OCLC Number:
495088711

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4 stars (2 reviews)

A woman who plans to conceive ends up in the arms of her husband's best friend; a man who baby-sits a neglected four-year-old ends up questioning his own dysfunctional relationship; a chance encounter at a gala event causes a woman to remember when she volunteered for a nightmarish drug-testing clinic. In "Standing up for Janey", a woman discovers that her best friend who is about to get married has just had an affair.

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2 stars

[guessing at the star rating / mining my old FB notes now that they are almost impossible to find]

a dark assembly of short stories, these characters are sad and often empty of direction. their inertia mostly bothered me (although where are you coming from, sweetheart? really tugged at my heart). i fear this author has had too much exposure to loss and mental illness in her short life

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Subjects

  • Canadian Short stories
  • Authors, Canadian (English)