7 Ways to Sunday

Lee Kvern's much-anticipated new collection contains stories which revolve around humanity in all its flawed glory: an artist's girlfriend dies by mistake; a mother holds surveillance on her son's foray into drugs; a sibling's jealousy toward her sickly brother; a father's death; a mother's fear for her unbridled, grade-two son; a woman with a hijab in the modern world of Save-on groceries. An arborist, his wife and a Shar-Pei are in need of an attitude adjustment; a dying senior looks back over her life, her children, her lost love; RCMP and prostitutes come for tea on a Wednesday afternoon.

Lee Kvern is the award-winning author of short stories and novels. After all was selected for 2013 Canada Reads (Regional) and also nominated for Alberta Book Awards. The Matter of Sylvie was nominated for Alberta Book Awards and the Relit Award. Her short stories are also well celebrated: national winner of the CBC literary award, winner: Western Magazine Awards, Hazel Hilles Memorial Short Fiction Prize, Howard O'Hagan Award. Her work has been produced for CBC Radio, published in Event, Descant, Air Canada enRoute, and subTerrain. On-line: Joyland.ca, Foundpress.com, LittleFiction.com, and www.leekvern.com. She lives outside Calgary, Alberta.