Morse Code for Romantics

By Chelsea Queen

In Anne Baldo's Morse Code for Romantics, patterns of life emerge-and break-in relationships both requited and otherwise. A restaurateur orchestrates a devious punishment for his wife's lover. A desperate mother searches for her missing daughter, a modern-day Persephone who was lured away by a sinister boyfriend. An islander falls under the spell of a visiting researcher, whose insidious smiles and natural sangfroid mirror the serpent-like sea monster he hunts.

These wistful, darkly surreal stories, set in Southern Ontario, suggest that maternal instinct is not just a chemical lie but something bloody and painful; that one person's clouds can rain on generations; and that true loneliness can be as clear as code written on a face, and as ominous as a dark, monstrous shape lurking beneath the surface.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889844569
• ISBN13: 9780889844568
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Porcupine's Quill
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.7"