Cascadia Subduction Shift - Paperback

by Brian Kaufman (Author)

In these forthright and personal fictions, Brian Kaufman pries open the lid on childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood to reveal an ungoverned world of adventure, risk, danger, and violence. Parental presence is oddly absent in these tales, and the inhabitants are left to establish their own rules for living and enforce them accordingly. At times uncanny, creepy, strange, surreal, and just plain weird, these oblique and often haunting pieces expose the forces that shape us, the tectonic shifts that rupture our psychological landscape, pushing us into the reformed geography of adulthood. Cascadia Subduction Shift ferries us across the fierce and turbulent waters of "coming of age" to a distant and--presumably--calmer shore.

Author Biography

Brian Kaufman, writer, editor, and publisher, has been active in publishing for over thirty years. He has ushered over 250 Anvil Press books and over 100 issues of subTerrain Magazine into print since 1988. In 2009, Brian received the City of Vancouver's Mayor's Arts Award for his "significant contribution to Vancouver's arts and cultural community, for shaping Vancouver as a creative city, and for enriching the lives of Vancouver's citizens." He was given the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2014 Western Magazine Awards, and the Jim Douglas Publisher of the Year Award. He writes fiction, poetry, memoir, and drama. Cascadia Subduction Shift is his first book of fiction.