Splinter & Shard : Stories - Lulu Keating

Splinter & Shard

Stories

By: Lulu Keating

Paperback | 21 May 2024

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A smashing debut collection from award-winning filmmaker Lulu Keating

Splinter & Shard is the debut story collection by acclaimed filmmaker-turned-writer Lulu Keating. Vivid and precise, the stories in this collection offer an uncompromising journey into what it means to be human.

Keating catches her characters at their pivotal moments of discovery, self-reckoning, and change. A dutiful mother of grown children learns a life-shattering secret about two of her children that upends her life. A macho man in mid-life must reconcile himself to his new role as a cosmetics consultant. A young woman, pregnant and unhappy, travels to the Yukon to bury her husband. An old woman turns away from her family to bond with the convicts of the small jail next door. An orphaned girl stumbles onto an unexpected connection with a stranger.

In these stories, flaws and strengths are writ large as characters fumble toward redemption.

From flash fiction to deep-dive character studies, Splinter & Shard turns over the rocks of everyday experience to reveal the psychological and philosophical truths underneath. The stories range back and forth in time, from Nova Scotia to the Yukon (with a side trip to Florida), and explore universal themes — loss, infidelity, faith, mortality, and love.
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“The women in these pages walk away from convention, while the men struggle to make sense of the world. I love the ways that shafts of humour and farce pierce the confusion of self-discovery, while Keating’s careful attention to landscape and language creates a complete world within each story. A wonderful collection.” — Charlotte Gray, CM, author of Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt

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