Peninsula Sinking - Paperback

by David Huebert (Author)

Winner of the 2018 Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction

Runner-Up for the 2017 Danuta Gleed Literary Award

Shortlisted for the 2018 Alastair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction

In Peninsula Sinking, David Huebert brings readers an assortment of Maritimers caught between the places they love and the siren call of elsewhere. From submarine officers to prison guards, oil refinery workers to academics, each character in these stories struggles to find some balance of spiritual and emotional grace in the world increasingly on the precipice of ruin. Peninsula Sinking offers up eight urgent and electric meditations on the mysteries of death and life, of grief and love, and never shies away from the joy and horror of our submerging world.

Back Jacket

In Peninsula Sinking, David Huebert brings readers an assortment of Maritimers caught between the places they love and the siren call of elsewhere. From submarine officers to prison guards, oil refinery workers to academics, each character in these stories struggles to find some balance of spiritual and emotional grace in the world increasingly on the precipice of ruin. Peninsula Sinking offers up eight urgent and electric meditations on the mysteries of death and life, of grief and love, and never shies away from the joy and horror of our submerging world.

Author Biography

David Huebert's stories have won the CBC Short Story Prize, the Sheldon Currie Fiction Prize, and The Dalhousie Review's short story contest. His fiction has also been shortlisted for the Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award and published in magazines such as enRoute, Grain, Matrix, and The Puritan. David is the author of the poetry collection We Are No Longer The Smart Kids In Class (Guernica 2015) and the winner of The Walrus' 2016 Poetry Prize. Originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, David currently lives in London, Ontario, where he's completing a PhD and a novel about southwestern Ontario oil.