Pp. viii, 232. Cream pictorial card wraps, printed in black.
Canadian author's first novel following two short story collections. A tender portrait of suburban strangeness and claustrophobic family life. "Oddly spellbinding... Berry has one of the drollest, most cunning sensibilities in Canadian fiction. A spiritual child of the novelist Barbara Gowdy, she creates characters who are so profoundly isolated they seem to live in separate universes." –Maclean's