Description
Mysteriously, overnight, a father disappears from his family home. A few months later, the mother vanishes too. As the police investigations go on and on and reporters descend on the home week after week — as well as visits by social workers, doctors, and concerned relatives — the abandoned seventeen-year-old Cirrus starts his own investigation into who his parents really were, or who they might have been.
Fiction.
Author Bio
Martin West was born in Victoria and spent his youth working and living in the Canadian west. His previous novel LONG RIDE YELLOW (Anvil Press, 2017), won the 2018 ReLit Award for Fiction. He was previously a ReLit nominee in the short fiction category in 2016 for his collection CRETACEA AND OTHER STORIES FROM THE BADLANDS (Anvil Press, 2016), recipient of a Gold IPPY award. The title story "Cretacea" was a finalist for the Journey Prize, and his story, "Miss Charlotte," appeared in the 2017 edition of Best Canadian Stories. Martin currently lives in Calgary, Alberta.
Author City: CALGARY, AB CAN