The Running Trees: Stories

By Amber McMillan

Finalist, New Brunswick Book Award (Fiction)
Finalist, Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction

A fervently comic debut, The Running Trees leads readers into a series of conversations -- through phonelines, acts in a play, and a rewound recording of a police interrogation -- to reveal characters in fumbling bouts of brutality, reflection, isolation, and love.

The relationship between two siblings disintegrates after one asks the other for the pen; a professor and his former student get drinks years after a "romantic" encounter; a book club meets only to find that they have wildly different opinions about a new memoir about their town; and a long-haired feline contemplates existence and consciousness while his cohabitant licks his own butthole.

Whimsical, unconventional, humorous, and always pitch-perfect, The Running Trees explores how we desperately try to communicate with each other amid the gaps in meaning we create.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1773101692
• ISBN13: 9781773101699
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.9" x 7.8"