The Goldfish Dancer

This startlingly original collection was short-listed for the inaugural Metcalf-Rooke Fiction Prize. Set in locales and time periods as varied as nineteenth-century England, contemporary Spain, and postwar Alberta, these five stories and two novellas introduce us to characters whose obsessions occupy the borderlands between fantasy and reality. In the title story, the half-black granddaughter of slaves becomes an exotic dancer in New York during the First World War and also develops a passion for goldfish. Agnes and the Fox features an elderly British woman in Vancouver, her imaginary companion, and the young Pakistani housekeeper who faces challenges of her own. In Graves of the Heroes, a Canadian woman in Spain searching for the grave of her great-uncle, a Civil War veteran, makes an unexpected and disturbing discovery.Robertson, Patricia is the author of 'The Goldfish Dancer', published 2007 under ISBN 9781897231050 and ISBN 1897231059.