The dead husband project
Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Short stories
Human-narrated audio
Summary
Meehan Sirk shines a distinctive light on love and death in their many incarnations, pushing against the limits of the absurd while exposing piercing emotional truths about what it means to be gloriously, maddeningly alive. In 'The Dead Husband Project',… an artist who has planned to make an installation out of her terminally ill husband’s dead body has to recalibrate when his diagnosis changes. In 'The Date', an online dating match takes an unusual turn when the man who shows up to the restaurant has no face. In 'Ozk', a young girl longs to connect with her socially isolated mother, a professor of mathematics who makes a radical discovery. 2017.