Far Away Home (The)

Spring 2005

Paperback 176 pages

Fiction

Nunatak

In The Far Away Home, Marci Denesiuk peels away the surface layers of everyday life to reveal the hidden lives of women as they wrestle with their inner demons. Caroline is paralyzed by depression in the cold, dark North; Kathryn acts as a dominatrix in a dim dungeon; Pat has a fetish for freaks; and, Pina bets her soul in a poker game with an arrogant film student who may just be the devil. Enter the private lives of these intriguing women as they search for a sense of belonging and home.

“All the lonely people, where do they all belong? In reading The Far Away Home you traverse the vast distances that separate us in Canada. Marci Denesiuk’s people are the isolated, the displaced, and the unnoticed. But she makes them all unforgettable: a homely and overweight loser who wins at cards when more than money is at stake; the young woman, who runs a balloon shop, lives with her parrot, and writes postcards to herself from home. There are ironies in these stories, but tenderness too.”

—Mary di Michele, author of Tenor of Love