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• Title : The Little Washer of Sorrows: and Other Stories
• Author : Katherine Fawcett
• Rating : 4.57 (171 Vote)
• Publish : 2014-7-13
• Format : Paperback
• Pages : 208 Pages
• Asin : 1771870494
• Language : English

It's only important to know that it's Wagg's 15th birthday, and he just received his first kiss, and that ecstatic coming of age isn't going to last long.Just as Fawcett injects the weird into the mundane, she hides hard, barbed little truths in her otherwise lightweight yarns. NPR Books, March 31, 2015The Little Washer of Sorrows is not what it seems. As their estate

It's only important to know that it's Wagg's 15th birthday, and he just received his first kiss, and that ecstatic coming of age isn't going to last long.Just as Fawcett injects the weird into the mundane, she hides hard, barbed little truths in her otherwise lightweight yarns. NPR Books, March 31, 2015The Little Washer of Sorrows is not what it seems. As their estate manager begins to exhibit supernatural qualities, though, the balance of reality gets turned on its side.Little Washer is playful when it comes to age-old tropes, from android imposters to Saint Peter at the Pearly Gates. Wagg is a part of a gang of semi-feral kids who roam neighborhoods, pack-like and barely civilized. If Fawcett's characters actually did live next door to you, your life would be in for some serious upheavals.Fawcett lets her speculative side run wild. The coup

The book's emotional impact is created with strong, richly drawn characters facing universal issues, but in unusual settings. (2014-09-24). The threat of something sinister lingers beneath the surface in many of Fawcett's stories, as she explores the messy "what ifs?" of life and the ever-present paradox of free will. The collection is both dark and comical with engaging plot twists and elements of the macabre as characters attempt to cope with high-stakes melodramas that drift further out of their control. The Little Washer of Sorrows is a collection of short stories that explores what happens when the expected and usual are replaced with elements of the rare and strange

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She teaches music in Whistler, BC, and plays fiddle in a band called The Wild Irises. After becoming a mother and turning forty, Katherine could no longer ignore her tendency to dance fancy jigs on the boundary between real and imagined and has since turned her hand to fiction.

Katherine Fawcett was born in Montreal, raised in Calgary, has lived in Japan, and now calls the small town of Pemberton, British Columbia home. Her short fiction has been published in Wordworks, Event, Freefall, subTerrain, and Other Voices, and her plays have been performed by several community theatre groups.

AWARD RECOGNITION:Winner Federation of BC Writers Short Story Contest: 2008. Winner Whistler Writes Creative Non-Fiction Award: 2008. Winner Event Magazine Non-Fiction Contest: 2009. Nominated for National Magazine Award for Personal Journ