Smells Like Heaven

by Sally Cooper

Overview

Set in the fictional town of Fletcher, the connected stories in Smells Like Heaven span thirty years. Fletcher is a town the characters strive to escape, but keep returning to, as they stumble through life searching for ways to connect and transcend their claustrophobic pasts. Following two sisters Devon and Christine as well as their friends and lovers, Smells Like Heaven exposes the core of what it means to be transformed by love. See below for praise of Cooper s 2007 novel Tell Everything.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781894037914
Publisher:	Arbeiter Ring Publishing
Publication date:	07/15/2017
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Sally Cooper is the author of two novels; Love Object and Tell Everything. Her third novel is forthcoming in 2018. She has been published in journals such as CNQ, Grain, White Wall Review, Event, and the Feathertale Review. She is a Senior Editor at Hamilton Review of Books and has an MA in Canadian & Commonwealth Literature from the University of Guelph and she taught English and writing at Humber College for 23 years, and also was a mentor for the Humber School for Writers correspondence program. She lives in Hamilton, Ontario. Smells Like Heaven is her first short fiction collection.

Table of Contents

Special 9

Canicular Days 24

The Language of Virgins 30

Wing 43

Father's Day 55

Here, in the Dirt 66

Freedom 75

The Benefit 81

The Renewal of Foggia 92

In Glass 117

You Fall Alone 135

Smells Like Heaven 149

She's Not Your Baby 159

Come Here, Go Away 182