The Butcher of Penetang
Trumpener, Betsy
Betsy Trumpener's raw fiction hits quickly, cuts deeply and lingers on in the imagination. Her urgent, unique voice pushes fiction north of what's real. "The Butcher of Penetang" carves up rare slices of savoury stories that are both tough and delicious. A child missing in a dangerous part of town, a draft dodger with bloody hands, a robber armed with a hairbrush, a refugee who rescues poetry from his prison cell, moose hunters chasing snow fl...