As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories | 
Just finished a slow re-read of this collection which I first read and loved in university. But wow, these stories are bleak! Lots of hardship and death, themes that hit harder at 47 than at 22. But there was also something comforting about revisiting this landscape, as I'm missing my Maritime home. #canlit
I have a couple autographed copies of Alistair MacLeod's later works in a box somewhere back in Canada, still unread, but it is the memories of my encounter with him at AWP in Vancouver in 2005 that I will treasure the most. Saw this, an early collection of his stories, in the bookstore the other day. It's high time I read some of his stuff!
