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Property

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Pub Date Oct 07 2025 | Archive Date Aug 27 2025

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Description

A spring day in a gentrifying neighbourhood begins unremarkably enough; by evening someone has died.

Nat, a middle-aged queer mother of two, feigns normalcy as she worries about her taciturn, loner son locked in his room. Her friend Maddy, a failed actress and fellow parent, frets over her missed opportunities and considers leaving her marriage. Next door, Ilya, a young construction worker, struggles to renovate a fixer-upper, but a buried stream threatens to flood the basement. An old woman eyes the street through the gap in her curtains. A lonely man wanders. 

As the troubled residents stumble through their errands, navigating the thorniness of class and privilege, of queer respectability and friendship in an overstretched city, each seemingly inconsequential exchange tightens in around the neighbourhood, until finally tragedy strikes, leaving it forever changed.

A spring day in a gentrifying neighbourhood begins unremarkably enough; by evening someone has died.

Nat, a middle-aged queer mother of two, feigns normalcy as she worries about her taciturn, loner...


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ISBN 9781552455074
PRICE CA$24.99 (CAD)
PAGES 232

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This was incredible. The shifting narrative voice was harder to track given that the .epub collapses all the page breaks, but you can still tell that Cayley is orchestrating it all masterfully. Each of the characters feels meaningfully embodied and Cayley has such a gift for the subtleties of power and relationship. It is a wonderful document of contemporary life, skillfully managed.

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