Everyone lives on Brunswick Avenue sooner or later, some longer than most. If you’ve never found the apartment of your dreams on this downtown street where anything is possible, then you may do so yet.
Fables of Brunswick Avenue is Katherine Govier’s first collection of short stories, beloved by readers for its timeless portraits of lives and relationships in the throes of change. These sixteen stories- at once painful, ironic, joyful and sad—capture the turning points in the lives of aspiring dancers, writers, actors and professionals who have migrated to the city from points east and west. The writer in the title story “Brunswick Avenue” comes to understand that her neighbourhood is provisional, in its draft stages, like her life.
Will marriage and childbirth tie the denizens of Brunswick more firmly to earth?
Infused with Govier’s magical ability to conjure time and place, Fables of Brunswick Avenue is about starting out, and starting over.