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Letters written to caregivers tending for elderly, ailing family. A meditation on the importance of being there and being with.
About the author
Mike Barnes is the author of Calm Jazz Sea, shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, Aquarium, winner of the 1999 Danuta Gleed Award for best first book of stories by a Canadian, The Syllabus, a novel, and the short fiction collection Contrary Angel. His stories have appeared twice in Best Canadian Stories, three times in The Journey Prize Anthology, and won the Silver Medal for Fiction at the National Magazine Awards. He lives in Toronto.
Summary
Letters written to caregivers tending for elderly, ailing family. A meditation on the importance of being there and being with.
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