Skip to main content Skip to search Skip to search

Fiction Short Stories (single Author)

Facing the Other Way

by (author) Gwen Davies

Publisher
Boularderie Island Press
Initial publish date
Aug 2016
Category
Short Stories (single author)
  • Book

    ISBN
    9781926448114
    Publish Date
    Aug 2016
    List Price
    $19.95

Classroom Resources

Where to buy it

Description

In Facing the Other Way Davies portrays a cast of idealistic housemates working toward a better world. In youth, with all of the innocence and naiveté of the ‘sixties, they rescue a pregnant girl from the street and take in abandoned babies. In the disenchantment and insecurity of middle age, one faces childhood guilt while another questions her relevance as a social worker. And through it all, when it counts, they are there for each other.

About the author

Contributor Notes

Gwen Davies grew up as an Air Force brat, exploring Europe in the family’s VW camper. Her stories appear in a number of literary magazines, US and Canada, and in 2013 she won The Antigonish Review’s Sheldon Currie Fiction Award. She teaches writing, and has run the Community of Writers retreat in Tatamagouche, NS, for fifteen years. In her sixties she took up parkour—learning to get past obstacles in the landscape and the mind—which put her on the front cover of Halifax Magazine. She lives and walks a lot in downtown Halifax.