The complex, tense relationship between a young woman's mother, father, and her mother's friend, Rita, plays out while Hockey Night in Canada airs on the TV in the background.
The stories in Red Plaid Shirt span twenty years of Diane Schoemperlen's challenging and innovative writing. Told in her fresh and often deadpan comedic voice, they offer a compulsively readable mix of deeply felt emotion and finely wrought intellect. This collection was shortlisted for the Upper Canada Brewing Company Writers' Craft Award.
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