What the Living Do

Overview

Sex and death consume much of thirty-seven-year-old Brett Catlin’s life. Cole, ten years her junior, takes care of the former while her job disposing of roadkill addresses the latter. A cancer diagnosis causes her to question her worth, suspecting the illness is payback for the deaths of her father and sister. Thus begins a challenging journey of alternative healing that she doubts she deserves. Just as Brett surrenders to the prescribed cure, a startling discovery sends her on a more profound exploration of cause and effect. Encounters with animals, both living and dead, help her answer the question: who is worth saving?

Author Biography

Winner of The Writers’ Union of Canada’s short prose contest, Susan Wadds’ fiction and poetry appear in various literary journals, including The Blood Pudding, Room, and carte blanche magazines. The first two chapters of her debut novel, “What the Living Do” won Lazuli Literary Group’s prose contest, and were published in Azure Magazine. A graduate of the Humber School for Writers, Susan is a certified Amherst Writers and Artists (AWA) writing workshop facilitator.