Author: Kelly Aitken. Published by Tightrope Books, Toronto, ON., 2016, 1st Edition. SIGNED and dedicated to another artist, by the Author. Printed in Canada. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 8.5 x 5.5 inch, 128 pages.
CANADIAN SHIELD, is Kelley Aitken’s compelling short fiction collection that is united by a sense of place, the Canadian Shield.
Her nine short stories traverse an area between land and water; near and far, between the uncontrollable and the veneer of civility. They reflect, Janus-headed, on Nature and human nature. Canadian Shield addresses that anxious paradox between our yearning for the wild and our need for security—a profound dilemma of our time.
