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Doubting Yourself to the Bone by Thomas Trofimuk Novel ISBN-13: 978-1-896951-86-7 5.5" x 8.5" Trade Paper with French Flaps $22.95 320 pages BISAC Codes FIC019000 Fiction/Literary

Doubting Yourself to the Bone by Thomas Trofimuk Doubting Yourself to the Bone is a story about the nature of grief, about what it means to be a parent in the face of great sorrow, the idea of re-invented love and hope. Set in Paris and a small town in the Canadian Rockies, the novel is propelled forward by a horrific car crash that reverberates for the victim's husband and daughters. From a scotch-swilling Tibetan monk to a titillating, imagined waif named Katya, whose uninvited visits are always intriguing, this story serpentines through the labyrinth of grief and pain as the victim's husband wrestles with the question, was the car crash an accident or intentional? It is a bumpy and strange journey, peopled with a capricious mother, an aging alcoholic uncle, five Buddhist monks in a broken van, and a nudist lesbian, that leads its main character and the reader on the road to salvation. Praise for The 52nd Poem: "The best book I've read all year. It is as beautiful a novel as the landscape he describes so elegantly." — Kim Brunhuber, CTV Ottawa "... he begins his novel with a poet's compressed precision, succeeding where other budding prose lyricists fail. Where some write with a fluid (or florid) lilt, and sentiments to match,Trofimuk offers a spare grace of expression and a narrative playfulness ..." — The Globe and Mail "... The 52nd Poem is a Can Lit classic, and should have a place on the shelves of your personal library ... a gripping, powerful and moving book ..." — The Edmonton Journal About Thomas Trofimuk.