<p><b>Winner of Best Cover Design at the 2020 Alberta Book PublishingAwards!<br>Third Place in the Prose Category at the 2019 Alcuin SocietyAwards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada!<br>All Lit Up Book ClubSelection!</b></p><p>In this provocative collection of shortstories, Karen Hofmann creates characters who struggle to connect or disconnectfrom entanglements and relationships. With ironic accuracy and sensuousimagery, Hofmann considers a range of human foibles: a newlywed couple whotransform into feral beasts during the hardships of a remote researchexpedition; backbiting faculty members who strip down during a post-conferenceBBQ; an heretical nun who explores the possibility of a new life byimaginatively excavating the fossils of BC's Burgess Shale; and an ambitiousbylaw officer determined to make her mark on the city'sstreets.</p><p>In <i>Echolocation</i>, KarenHofmann has found new ways to sound the depths of the human heart.</p><p><b>Winner of Best Cover Design at the 2020 Alberta Book PublishingAwards!<br>Third Place in the Prose Category at the 2019 Alcuin SocietyAwards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada!<br>All Lit Up Book ClubSelection!</b></p><p>In this provocative collection of shortstories, Karen Hofmann creates characters who struggle to connect or disconnectfrom entanglements and relationships. With ironic accuracy and sensuousimagery, Hofmann considers a range of human foibles: a newlywed couple whotransform into feral beasts during the hardships of a remote researchexpedition; backbiting faculty members who strip down during a post-conferenceBBQ; an heretical nun who explores the possibility of a new life byimaginatively excavating the fossils of BC's Burgess Shale; and an ambitiousbylaw officer determined to make her mark on the city'sstreets.</p><p>In <i>Echolocation</i>, KarenHofmann has found new ways to sound the depths of the human heart.</p>