Seeing You Home

These interconnected short stories navigate love, loss, and the search for meaning in the wake of tragedy. Clare’s husband Richard is battling cancer in St. Boniface Hospital, and when his cellphone is stolen, she embarks on a restless search, tracking its signal through the city--trying to grasp onto something tangible as everything familiar slips away. Tracing the threads of Clare and Richard’s relationship, from the exhilaration of their first meeting to the raw ache of his absence, Seeing You Home is an intimate portrait of devotion, grief, and the impossible task of finding a way forward.

Catherine Hunter’s last publication, the poetry collection St. Boniface Elegies, was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award, and her previous poetry collection, Latent Heat, won the McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year Award. Four of the poems in St. Boniface Elegies, originally published in Contemporary Verse 2, won the Manitoba Magazine Award for Best Poem or Suite of Poems and earned Honorable Mention in the National Magazine Awards. Her most recent novel, After Light, spans four generations of an Irish-American-Canadian family in a tale of love, war, trauma, and the power of art, and was a finalist for the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award, the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher, and the High Plains Book Award for Best Woman Writer. Hunter has also published several mysteries with Ravenstone/Turnstone, and recorded a spoken word CD with Winnipeg’s The Weakerthans.