Book Launch: Driving Crazy to the Front Door by Michael Foy
Join us for the launch of Michael Foy’s short story collection Driving Crazy to the Front Door (Linda Leith Publishing).
Moderated by Harold Hoefle.
This event is free, but please RSVP on TicketSource so the venue knows how many people to expect.
Masks are not required, but will be provided for free at the door.
Please note that the venue’s elevator entrance is at 1839 Rue Sainte-Catherine, which is next door to our building entrance. The venue is on the mezzanine level (MZ button), which opens up into the hair salon next door. You’ll need to turn left to get to the salon entrance and then the location (Argo) is on the right. The building office will sometimes lock the elevator entrance door or elevator at the end of the day. If you’re locked out, please call the venue at 514-931-3442 and someone will come let you in.
ABOUT THE BOOK
In Michael Foy’s debut collection, Driving Crazy to the Front Door, many of the stories are set in Surrey’s urban sprawl. The characters face a demolition of love, a type of destruction that forces them to rebuild and, if they can, recoup their losses.
Whether from a failed marriage, a dead mother, or a fatal car crash, each story has some hope and redemption. There is humour too, when three kids cram into a straw-filled chicken coop to hide from an angry farmer, lighting up more than cigarettes. Or you’ll find eighty-two-year-old Nora Allen escaping from the Florence Nightingale hospital, stealing a car, and ordering a Big Mac before continuing down the King George highway to her childhood home to search for her adopted son. Cooper Reynolds is an old widow who might remarry, but first, his estranged, druggie daughter comes home to save his life.
All fourteen stories shine some light on the darkness of the human condition, and in so doing, help us to better understand ourselves, our family, friends and maybe even our enemies. Driving Crazy to the Front Door takes us right up close to loss—not for self-pity or despair, but to offer hope, and reminds us of what it means to be human.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Michael Foy was born and raised in Surrey, British Columbia. He holds degrees in psychology and education from Simon Fraser University. His fiction has appeared in Grain Magazine, The Nashwaak Review, QWERTY, Literally Stories, Blank Spaces, Canadian Shorts II, and other journals and anthologies. His story “The Questions Run” received an Honourable Mention in the Riddle Fence Fiction Contest. He lives in Montreal with his wife and two daughters. www.michaelfoy.ca