This book showcases fiction by twenty of Canada's most exciting authors - established, newly popular, and emerging. Provocative and contemporary, their stories come from cities and shopping malls as well as from wharves, woods, and farms. Lynn Coady, David Adams Richard, Wayne Johnston, and other recreate Atlantica's opulent vocabulary and syntax. Laughter grief, beauty and sorrow are inseparable in stories by writers including Alistair MacLeod, Sheldon Currie, Herb Curtis, and Donna Morrissey.