Shortlisted for the RBC Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers, High Kick is a brilliantly crafted debut collection set against the backdrop of the crashing oil economy in contemporary Newfoundland. Eva Crocker sees life with eyes just a little sharper than everyone else's. The objects, rituals, and scenes of everyday life take on an almost mythic quality in these stories, even while remaining intimately recognizable to us all. Crocker peers at the underbelly of poverty and work, ambition and apathy, loneliness and love, to find the sliver of beauty in each spot. Nothing is ever as simple as it seems.