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***IPPY AWARDS: BEST REGIONAL FICTION: CANADA-EAST - SILVER*** ***THE GLOBE AND MAIL SUMMER'S HOTTEST READS*** Jess is a sensitive creature of habit. Cait is her passionate and impulsive best friend. And in Melt, Heidi Wicks follows the lives of these characters from their teenage years into their late thirties--through drifting desires, fake tans, economic turbulence, kids, grief, job loss, love loss, and personal renewal. Shifting radiantly between the late nineties and the present day, Melt explores the life-sustaining anatomy of friendship and the complex relationships we have with our pasts.
About the author
Heidi Wicks has written for Riddle Fence, Newfoundland Quarterly and The Globe and Mail. Her debut novel, Melt (2020), was featured in the Globe and Mail's Hot Summer Reads list and received a silver medal IPPY (Independent Publisher) award. She received the 2019 Cox and Palmer Creative Writing Award. She is featured in short fiction collection Hard Ticket and the creative nonfiction collection, Best Kind. She lives in her beloved hometown of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
