Mona'a Malik is a young Newfoundland writer now living in Montreal. She speaks of the pressure on immigrant families struggling to come to terms with a whole new world. Mark Jacquemain's dark stories deal with fathers and wives, baseball and beach towns--or even a mouse in an oven mitt that causes a kitchen fire. Jann Everard is at home in the outdoor world--whether she's portaging a canoe while being eaten alive by mosquitoes or clinging for dear life to a mountain precipice. She has an engaging empathy with her people, whether they are family or lovers or forces of wild and savage nature.