WINNER of the 2013 Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction.
In Richard Van Camp’s fictionalized north anything can happen and yet each story is rooted in a vivid contemporary reality. The stories offer a potent mix tape of tropes from science fiction, horror, Western and Aboriginal traditions. The title story pits Torchy against the Smith Squad, fighting for love and family in a bloody, cathartic, and ultimately hopeful narrative. Van Camp’s characters repeatedly confront the bleakness of sexual assault, substance addiction and violence with the joy and humour of inspired storytelling.
“Of his Dogrib Dene heritage, Richard Van Camp says, ‘We’re encouraged to tell stories every day. Storytelling is part of our spirituality … I want to be remembered as somebody who wrote literature that was hopeful. I think life is about second chances.’” – Prairie Books Now, Spring 2013, Storytelling, from Lullibies to Zombies by Chadwick Ginther.
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