When Dr. Hope Sze trades the crime-ridden city of Montreal for a fishing trip with her dad, she expects misty lakes and crimson maple leaves. In other words, a perfect family fun day. Then Hope’s mother—never the sharpest scalpel in the neighbourhood—drags along crazy uncle Leonard, transforming Black Donald Lake into a very dark place. Family a novella originally commissioned as three separate Gone Fishing stories for Kobo’s international reading contest ( Cain and Abel, Trouble and Strife, Butcher’s Hook), now collected together for the first time, along with a behind-the-scenes narrative by the author, including never-before-released ruminations on writing. Praise for Terminally Ill, by Melissa “The three intertwining mysteries and Hope herself provide a narrative by turns entertaining and insightful.”—Publishers Weekly