Specimen: stories
Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Short stories
Human-narrated audio
Summary
Short stories that explore science and the human heart; the place where physical reality collides with our spiritual and emotional lives. In “The Blood Keeper,” a young academic travels to North Korea to work on her dissertation and embarks on… a dangerous affair. In “Mamochka,” which was nominated for the 2012 Journey Prize, an archivist at the Institute for Physics in Minsk must come to terms with her daughter’s marriage to a Chinese man in Vancouver. And in “The Big One,” a woman and her daughter find themselves trapped in the rubble of an underground parking garage after an earthquake. 2015.