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Dr. Declan Unsworth, for his patience and thoroughness with medical concerns. Thomas Trofimuk for reading an early draft and letting me go off the deep end. Gail Anderson-Dargatz and Donal McLaughlin, for their invaluable help on earlier drafts and never letting me go too far off the deep end. Michael Kenyon for his editorial deftness and for bringing me back home.
Dedicated to mon oncle Arthur André Bussière (June 6, 1941 – August 22, 2014), without whom bigger mistakes would have been made.
For Raymond and André, the best people I know.
What if
the bees leaving
means angels are?
The lucky ones don’t believe in angels.
Author photo by Raymond Blanchette-Dubé
PAULETTE DUBÉ’s first novel, Talon, made the shortlists for the 1999 Canadian Literary Awards, the Alberta Writers’ Guild Best Novel Award (2003), and the Starburst Award (2003). Her poetry has garnered a number of awards.
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