Taking the Stairs Product Form:Paperback / softback But more than literary whim

But more than literary whim

–Umbrella Tooth

Prize(s): Short-listed Acorn-Plantos Award for People's Poetry (2013)

and can do little more than simply let the work speak for itself

The author's prose is punchy

Taking the Stairs Product Form:Paperback / softback But more than literary whimDescription Longlisted for the 2009 Relit Award for the novel Jarod Palmer is a 32 year old Toronto writer waiting for his big break though a small one will do. Haunted by his story of tragic teenage sweethearts in smalltown Nova Scotia featuring the unforgettable Lana Banana Jarod is infected by the ancient mariner's curse on all young unpublished novelists to "tell the tale." The problem is that he is trying to pursue his solitary and introspective