Only Thing I Have

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"In succinct, Carveresque prose, Waterfall creates remarkable protagonists obsessed with starlet pixies, squash, lost infants, pregnant throats, ghosts in telephone poles and above all the sheer longing requisite in being alive."--Adam Lewis Schroeder, author of Kingdom of Monkeys

Rhonda Waterfall evokes A.M. Homes and Alice Munro in these unsettling, evocatively written stories about domestic dysfunction. In them, life unfolds in odd, unpredictable ways: a murderous plot is revealed through Post-It notes, a film director will do anything to recapture his lost youth, and an elderly woman finds the love of a child in a marrow squash.

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Rhonda Waterfall has a true genius for narrative; her characters are everyday people who seem to lead everyday lives, but the everyday worlds that they inhabit (so like and unlike our own) are complexified by the strange turnings and obscure pitfalls of a unique, unrepeatable and remorseless reality. Stephen Osborne, Geist

Author Bio

Rhonda Waterfall was born in 1973 in Ocean Falls, BC. She studied creative writing with the Writer's Studio at Simon Fraser University. Her work has appeared in Geist, Descant, and several other literary journals. This is her first book. She lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada.