The Heart Is Its Own Reason marks the dazzling debut of a new voice in Canadian fiction. With a surgeon's skill, Natalee Caple reveals the workings of the human heart and the eternal search for love. In the title story, Lana, nursing her infant son, tells her friend Karen: "Men are a kind of blade. Even though you can see how sharp and quick they are against another woman's skin it still surprises you when you embrace them and they cut, cut through you, escaping out of your opened back." But it is Lana who wielded the knife, stabbing her lover Gary, and playing Miles Davis as he slowly bled to death. The police can understand a crime of passion, but not the music and not the darker terror that drove her to murder.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C813/.54
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 1895837251 9781459308978
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.C3
- LCCN Item number
- H43 1998eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOTU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (168 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00213723 (OCoLC)244770670 (CaOOCEL)407937
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOTU
Table of Contents
- Contents 10
- The Price of Acorn 14
- The Trouble with Killing Someone You Know 30
- Under Hunger 40
- Inside Molly Newton 48
- The Heart is its Own Reason 58
- Two Empty Chairs 66
- A Kind of Apology 78
- Stealing Kay 90
- To Be a Good Brother 102
- Maddy and Adam 114
- The Pigeon 124
- Things You Tow 134
- The Proud Selenographer 142
- Breathing in April 150
- George Loves Odette 158
