By: Susan E Wadds
ISBN: 978-1646034093
Regal House Publishing, 2024
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, living and dead, help her answer the question: who is worth saving?
About the Author
Susan Wadds won the Writer’s Union of Canada’s Prose Contest in 2016 and the first two chapters of What The Living Do, which was released this year by Regal House Publishing, won the Lazuli Group’s Prose Contest, and were published in Azure magazine. Her work has appeared in The Blood Pudding, Room, Quagmire, Waterwheel Review, Funicular, and WOW-Women on Writing. A Humber School for Writers graduate, Susan became a certified Amherst Writers and Artists workshop facilitator in 2014. Since then, she’s led workshops and retreats internationally and closer to home using the AWA method. She lives on a quiet river in traditional Anishinaabeg territory on Williams Treaty land with an odd assortment of humans and cats.
To learn more about Susan E Wadds and her work, please see writeyourwayin.ca
