The Vision Of The Hohokam: Short Story
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When Alexis and her son, Jamie, are interviewed about a play based on their lives, Alexis recalls meaningful moments throughout their relationship and learns that she and Jamie do not share the same opinions about the events defining their lives. Throughout the interview, Alexis struggles to discover the truth of how her actions affected her son’s life.
Fever is a collection of sixteen short stories that reveal the secret inner lives of women and men, skilfully peeling back their defenses to expose crystallizing moments of joy, pain, fear, and guiltless pleasure. Sharon Butala infuses Fever with an intensity of emotion that often catches readers off guard, making for a reading experience that is always honest and powerful.
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Sharon Butala
SHARON BUTALA is an award-winning and bestselling author of both fiction and non-fiction. Her classic book The Perfection of the Morning was a #1 bestseller and a finalist for the Governor General’s Award. Fever, a short story collection, won the 1992 Authors’ Award for Paperback Fiction and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best book (Canada and Caribbean region). Butala is a recipient of the Marian Engel Award, the Saskatchewan Order of Merit, and the 2012 Cheryl and Henry Kloppenburg Award for Literary Excellence. In 2002 she became an Officer of the Order of Canada. She lives in Calgary, Alberta.
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The Vision Of The Hohokam - Sharon Butala
The Vision of the Hohokam
Sharon Butala
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The Vision of the Hohokam
About the Author
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About the Publisher
The Vision of the Hohokam
The publicist checks them in at the desk, then leads them down a narrow corridor and up a flight of stairs. Alexis follows her and Jamie brings up the rear. They reach a small lounge with worn sofas on each wall and a coffee table between them that is so low a midget would have to kneel to use it. The outside wall is glass and looks out on the dark harbour and the rain. The opposite wall is glass too, but it looks into the studio where the host of the radio show with the biggest listening audience in that half of the province is smoking, gesturing with his cigarette, and talking into the haze to a male guest who is seated with his back to the three of them. Although they can’t see the guest’s face, they can hear his voice over the speaker system that is tuned to the show. They sit down, Alexis with her back to the harbour facing Jamie and Sheila, whose backs are to the studio.
Alexis can’t concentrate on what the two men are saying. She has no idea what their conversation is about, it is that kind of radio, although she is aware that they seem to be enjoying themselves. She turns and looks out at the rain running silently down the thick panes of glass. Jamie, her son, says something to Sheila, who stands and waves mutely to the host on the other side of the glass wall. The host nods back and sticks up seven fingers. Sheila nods agreement and sits again. The voices of the two men, broken now and then by chuckles, murmur on.
Alexis turns again to look out to the black expanse of water spreading itself out below and behind her. Through the rain streaking down the window she can see the lights of a small vessel crossing the harbour and by its steady, angled course, she recognizes it as the sea bus nearing the downtown side. She had ridden on it a couple of years before when she had come to Vancouver to see Jamie in a play at his theatre school. Once they were under way the lights were shut off and they could see the north shore growing smaller behind them, and ahead of them, the lights of the downtown skyline approaching. With Jamie seated beside her, tired after his performance and