domestic fiction

Barnaby Gaitlin, a thirty-year-old who was frequently in trouble as a youth, has been working steadily for eleven years for Rent-a-Back, Inc., but it seems as though his family, his ex-wife, and even the woman who seems to be interested in him, just cannot get over his past.

The members of the Rubins family struggle to find true love and happiness, even as their family begins to fall apart.

John and Mary Keane and their four children, Michael, Annie, Jacob, and Clare, battle the tumultuous political, social, and spiritual upheavals of the 1950s and 1960s.

In a small Ontario town in the 1960s, a young girl's life is forever changed after she learns a dark family secret and learns the power of forgiveness.

Residents in a Newfoundland town--including teenage Colleen, an ecoterrorist drawn to alligators; Beverly, her grieving, widowed mother; Colleen's aunt Madeleine, a filmmaker trying to complete her greatest work before her death; and nineteen-year-old Frank, who has lost his mother to cancer and is being targeted by a sociopathic Russian sailor--wish for redemption while struggling with their obsessions.