In these twenty stories Peter Unwin takes a contemporary journey to a place called 'the north', where spaghetti is served 'Italian style' and local economies are based primarily on the sale of dew worms. Told with a barely-suppressed hilarity, these stories are set, for the most part, against the vanishing backdrop of a once-bountiful Ontario. In a series of acutely drawn incidents, the author strips away the ingrained, romanticized version of rural...