Tilting Towards Joy - Paperback

by Margaret MacPherson (Author)

Tilting Towards Joy is a collection of interconnected stories that trace the delicate threads binding lives across continents and through time. Set against the backdrop of rural France, each story follows familiar characters through unfamiliar terrain, offering insight into how we navigate new experiences, unexpected conflicts, and shifting relationships.

Among the characters we meet are an empty-nest couple who trade their Edmonton home for a farmhouse in rural France; a young girl who exacts revenge on her siblings by serving an unconventional "dessert"; a woman who after being scammed chooses to view the situation with hope rather than pessimism; visiting friends who show their true colours; and siblings hurriedly preparing for a wildfire evacuation. Each story, grounded in a moment of personal reckoning, pulses with a sense of yearning -- tilting always toward the possibility of joy, even as it remains just out of reach.

Author Biography

Margaret Macpherson is a writer originally from Canada's Northwest Territories. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and has worked as an essayist and journalist in Atlantic Canada, Bermuda, Vancouver, and Edmonton. She has published eight books including Tracking the Caribou Queen (winner of the IPPY Gold Medal for Western Canada Regional Non-fiction and shortlisted for the Alberta Book Publishing Awards for Non-fiction Book of the Year), Body Trade (Winner of the De Beers NorthWords Prize), Released (shortlisted for the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher), and Perilous Departures (shortlisted for the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher). Margaret lives in Deep River, Ontario.