A remarkable debut short story collection, Kelly Cooper's Eyehill provides a multi-hued portrait of a prairie town. Eyehill is populated by men and women, who have worked for generations to wrest a living from the dry, rolling hills. Like people anywhere else, they hunger for love, understanding, a decent living, and safety and comfort in their homes. Their passion for something more, something better, is tangled by their almost visceral attachment to the land. In this small, tightly knit community, secrets are essential. The need to keep silent and to control terrifying emotions is at the same time necessary and ruinous. Kelly Cooper grew up in a tiny farming community in Saskatchewan and now lives in New Brunswick where she teaches school. Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Canadian Author.
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A remarkable debut short story collection, Kelly Cooper's Eyehill provides a multi-hued portrait of a prairie town. Eyehill is populated by men and women, who have worked for generations to wrest a living from the dry, rolling hills. Like people anywhere else, they hunger for love, understanding, a decent living, and safety and comfort in their homes. Their passion for something more, something better, is tangled by their almost visceral attachment to the land. In this small, tightly knit community, secrets are essential. The need to keep silent and to control terrifying emotions is at the same time necessary and ruinous. Kelly Cooper grew up in a tiny farming community in Saskatchewan and now lives in New Brunswick where she teaches school. Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Canadian Author.