Cocktail (Alward Lisa)(Paperback)

One of the Globe and Mail's "Sixty-Two Books to Read This Fall" - Listed in CBC Books Fiction to Read in Fall 2023
"A writer to watch."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)A girl receives a bedtime visit from a drunken party guest, who will haunt her fantasies for years. A young mother discovers underneath the wallpaper a striking portrait that awakens inconvenient desires. A divorced man distracts himself from the mess he's made by flirting with a stranger. These intimate, immersive stories explore life's watershed moments, in which seemingly insignificant details--a pot of hyacinths, a freshly painted yellow wall--and the most chance of encounters come to exert a tidal pull. Set in the swinging sixties and each decade since, Cocktail reveals the schism between the lives we build up around us and our deepest hidden
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