We're in Trouble

This book begins with We're in Trouble a suite of three stories that introduces its common theme: love darkening and persevering as it is tried by the cold fact of death. And in the vivid stories that follow as Coake's unforgettable characters experience love staring at the face of death it elicits either the best or the worst in them. From a wife waiting for news of her husband's latest death-defying climb to a sheriff thrown into turmoil after his close friend enacts a horrifying murder-suicide Coake makes us feel the truth of his imperiled characters' lives and transforms it into cathartic art. <p/>With the complexity depth and narrative drive of a novel this extraordinary debut collection is at once suspenseful empathic and almost unbearably moving.<br>