Tilting Towards Joy

By (author): Margaret Macpherson

Tilting Towards Joy is a collection of interconnected stories that trace the delicate threads binding lives across continents and through time. Set against the backdrop of rural France, each story follows familiar characters through unfamiliar terrain, offering insight into how we navigate new experiences, unexpected conflicts, and shifting relationships.

Among the characters we meet are an empty-nest couple who trade their Edmonton home for a farmhouse in rural France; a young girl who exacts revenge on her siblings by serving an unconventional “dessert”; a woman who after being scammed chooses to view the situation with hope rather than pessimism; visiting friends who show their true colours; and siblings hurriedly preparing for a wildfire evacuation. Each story, grounded in a moment of personal reckoning, pulses with a sense of yearning — tilting always toward the possibility of joy, even as it remains just out of reach.

AUTHOR

Margaret Macpherson

Margaret Macpherson grew up in the Northwest Territories on the shores of Great Slave Lake. She has a Masters degree in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and has worked as a journalist and teacher in Halifax, Bermuda, and Vancouver. Macpherson is the author of four non-fiction volumes including Silk, Spices and Glory: In Search of the Northwest Passage and the award-winning biography Nellie McClung: Voice for the Voiceless. Her first collection of short fiction, Perilous Departures, was published by Signature Editions in 2004. This is Margaret Macpherson’s first novel.

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Dimensions:

156 Pages
8.50in * 5.50in * .60in
220.00gr

Published:

October 15, 2024

Publisher:

Signature Editions

ISBN:

9781773241494

Book Subjects:

FICTION / Short Stories

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Language:

eng