The Pull

About the Book

Some years after the welder left for Churchill. Frank is older, slower, still in the house in Glace Bay. His daughter Ann lives in Toronto. One day the phone rings.

Frank has fallen in the garden. He is mostly alright. But something shifts in Ann that night, and over the year that follows she is pulled — by her father’s decline, by the old house’s quiet accumulation, by the gravity of the island itself — toward a decision she never thought she’d make.

A novel about coming home late — and about the particular weight of a place that has been waiting for you. The series closes where it began: with three words typed into a laptop in a yellow kitchen, said by a different person who now understands why they are said this way.