Grayling | Gillian Wigmore
"Grayling," the fiction debut by award-winning poet Gillian Wigmore, is a novella that follows a couple as they descend the Dease River in northwestern BC. With acutely spare storytelling, Wigmore teases out the nuances between a man and a woman as they meet, travel together, dodge rocks in a boulder garden, and fish their way down the river. Both characters have recently set themselves adrift from previous lives--and both desire to know what or who they should anchor themselves to. They struggle for power on the river, negotiating sex and rhetoric on the sandbanks and in the canoe. Ultimately their five days together culminate with the inevitable choice to come ashore or stay on course.
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