The Meaning Of Children
“Fluid and masterful [with] wonderful little insights throughout… a keen, incisive vision into the hidden world of children as well as intimate knowledge of the secret spaces that exist between the everyday events of life. There is knowledge here, knowledge of those important, life-defining moments. Overall, a work with a brilliant sense of story.” —Joanne Soper-Cook, judge, Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick’s 2010 David Richards Adams Prize
“Oh, it’s lovely. I like it when my body responds to writing; right now there’s an ache in my throat.” —EarLit Shorts
Emotional and tightly written, with a resistance to the happy ending, and the idea there is often something or someone waiting for the small mistake. These fourteen stories approach the world’s complexities through a child’s eyes, grapple with the sorrows and ecstasies of child-bearing years, and probe the truths that touch us with a child-like clarity at the end of life’s journey.
A girl discovers a fear of heights as her parents’ marriage unravels; a thirty- something venture fund manager frets over his daughter’s paternity; an orphan whose hands kill whatever they touch is accused of homophobia; a mother of two can only bear to consider abortion in the second person; the wife of a retirement-aged professor finds him unconscious near his computer… The Meaning of Children speaks to all of us who – although aware the world can be a very dark place – can’t help but long for redemption through children.
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