"Sisters Sissy and Yewina have been on their own for who knows how long exactly. It's just them (and their hens) in a weathered farmhouse miles from town. Their rural, woodsy East Coast community has been losing residents for years, but the almost-forgotten stories have lived on for the sisters in different ways. While Yewina is more guarded and level-headed, dreamer Sissy has a flair for twisting fact with fantasy. When Scott, a folklorist from Scottsdale, Arizona, shows up at their door in hopes of chronicling whispers, he's in for much more of a story than he expected. This unique and quirky ode to folklore storytelling and to small lives lived large illuminates how living our own truths can make us legends." - from the publisher
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2018, Neptune Theatre and Eastern Front Theatre, Nova Scotia
2023
Playwrights Canada Press
9780369104069
An except of the play can be found on this sales page: https://atlanticbooks.ca/books/half-cracked
An except of the play can be found on this sales page: https://atlanticbooks.ca/books/half-cracked
TYA (14-18 recommended)
Based on a traditional Nlaka’pamux story about a community confronting the issue of domestic violence, Battle of the Birds is a story set in the mythical time before time, when animals appeared like humans with animal attributes and spoke a similar language. The Bird nation is alarmed because Bald Eagle is abusive to his wife. Golden Eagle convinces the bird nation to rescue Bald Eagle’s Wife, but this means war.
Stylized
When news of their father’s death comes to Canada, sisters Josephine and Suzette take a trip to Haiti to bury a man they hardly knew.
