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“The Epiphanies of Flapjack” are the creation of a Toronto editor who broke out of a happy retirement in the fall of 2017 to share a collection of stories that she wrote over the years and on the sly while raising two children and trying to make a living. Her lead character, Flapjack, is a forty-something woman who is into a second marriage on the verge of ruin. Her second husband, whom she calls “Thunder,” harbours a deep, dark secret that she unravels thread by thread. Readers can dip into Flapjack’s comedic yet grim stories one after another or jump in at any point.  And, oh, Flapjack is just a very rough approximation of the author herself.

Divorce and betrayal, guilt and perversity, crime and incarceration are of course serious themes but the author manages to show their hilarious underbelly. Raising children, canoe trips, intercultural love affairs – all are grist for the Flapjack satire mill, as is the very idea of happy endings. And yet there is one. Sort of.

Originally published in email installments, the Flapjack stories have a small but loyal following:

“I read FJ to become immersed in its intelligent irony and to savour its whimsical humour. Flapjack reflects Carol Shield’s statement that serious novels are about the search for a true home. And what a joyous homecoming.” – Dianne Frenette, Poet and Retired Teacher