"Marta's not in mourning, she's in love." So begins the title story in this stellar first collection of witty, wry, darkly humorous writing. Like Marta, many of the characters swing between love and mourning, blurring boundaries with their stubborn hearts and bones. Set chiefly in Nova Scotia, the book begins and ends with trilogies of linked stories, the first about grief and death - the death of a father, the death of a mother, and the death of a relationship - and the last about family and "strange relations."
