Circle of Stones

by Suzanne Alyssa Andrew

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Pub Date Mar 28 2015 | Archive Date Nov 25 2014

Dundurn | Dundurn Press

General Fiction (Adult)

Description

Nik is an eccentric art student obsessed with painting his dancer girlfriend, Jennifer. When one day she inexplicably disappears, Nik’s world is shattered. Determined to find her, he embarks on a cross-country journey following a scant trail of clues. He doesn’t anticipate how far he’ll have to travel, what he’ll do when he runs out of money, or the fact that an intimidating stranger is looking for Jennifer, too.

Nik and Jennifer fade into the background of their own tale, surfacing now and again like ghosts as the rest of their mysterious story unfolds through a series of chance encounters with intricately linked strangers. An English professor coping with a dying mother, a rebellious teenage girl, a debt-ridden civil servant, a disillusioned ex-anarchist documentary filmmaker, and other disparate characters who encounter the separate couple as they circle one another in a tentative dance.

Circle of Stones reveals as much about the grief and the grinding frustrations of contemporary life as it does about the pursuit of love at all costs.

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A Note From the Publisher

Suzanne Alyssa Andrew grew up in Campbell River, a coastal community on Northern Vancouver Island. She studied at Carleton University in Ottawa, where she earned a Bachelor of Journalism and a Master of Arts degree in English. Her work has appeared in various publications including Taddle Creek, the Toronto Star, Taddle Creek, and Broken Pencil. Suzanne lives in Toronto.

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Advance Praise

"Suzanne Alyssa Andrew's writing is sinuous, polished and deceptively simple, drawing you closer to her characters, their fears and longings, and all the mysteries they are trying to penetrate. Circle of Stones is a dragonfly's view on a complex story of love, loss, and art, in ten chapters. I enjoyed the shifting point of view because it makes the reading experience both exciting and challenging — as a reader, I was also a fully engaged participant in the novel, finding connections, and empathy, with and for the characters."

-Rebecca Rosenblum , author of Once and The Big Dream

"Suzanne Alyssa Andrew's writing is sinuous, polished and deceptively simple, drawing you closer to her characters, their fears and longings, and all the mysteries they are trying to penetrate...

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