Hidden Brook Press, Brighton, ON, 2009, 1st.  ISBN 978-1-897475-39-3.  Trade soft cover, 129 pages including Acknowledgements and Author Profile, followed by ads.  Unread copy, not remaindered with no discernible flaws.  Cover art by Judith Versavel.  ‘Drawing their sustenance from past generations, Calla and Edourd’s love endures when traumatic loss gives way to fragmentation of memory, and past, present and future merge into one.  MacDonald creates word paintings of nature and domestic life that linger after the last word is read.  This is a beautiful story.  (Evelyn Bowering, Family Therapist, Dept of Family Medicine, Queen’s University).  (from rear wrap)