Overview
In Anne Baldo's Morse Code for Romantics, patterns of life emerge-and break-in relationships both requited and otherwise. A restaurateur orchestrates a devious punishment for his wife's lover. A desperate mother searches for her missing daughter, a modern-day Persephone who was lured away by a sinister boyfriend. An islander falls under the spell of a visiting researcher, whose insidious smiles and natural sangfroid mirror the serpent-like sea monster he hunts.
These wistful, darkly surreal stories, set in Southern Ontario, suggest that maternal instinct is not just a chemical lie but something bloody and painful; that one person's clouds can rain on generations; and that true loneliness can be as clear as code written on a face, and as ominous as a dark, monstrous shape lurking beneath the surface.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780889844568
- ISBN-10: 0889844569
- Publisher: Porcupine's Quill
- Publish Date: March 2023
- Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.8 pounds
- Page Count: 208
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