Paradise

By Patti Flather

After a traumatic assault in Central America, Rachel returns home, but it isn’t the reprieve she expected. She comes back to turmoil between her parents, and a part-time job in her dad’s medical office. Her father, George, full of endearing blunder, tries unsuccessfully to connect with his daughter, who seems to be reeling. Her childhood friend Khalil isn’t around to provide support. He’s in Afghanistan travelling and volunteering when he is wrongfully arrested. On the periphery is Wally—off work because of a logging injury—who spends a great deal of time in George’s office. Wally struggles to buy food for his dog Lucky, his rent payments are overdue, and the ringing in his ears just won’t stop. He’s looking for help in all the right places, but nobody seems to notice he’s deteriorating until it’s too late.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
• Release date: Apr 25, 2017
• ISBN: 9781770917590

Patti Flather

Patti Flather (www.pattiflather.com) is an award-winning Yukon playwright, theatre artist, writer, and cultural producer. Paradise toured nationally; a scene is featured in Refractions: Scenes. Her first fiction collection is Such A Lovely Afternoon (Inanna). Other plays include Sixty Below, West Edmonton Mall, Where the River Meets the Sea, and Street Signs (formerly The Soul Menders). She’s among the co-creators of the Ndoo Tr’eedyaa Gogwaandak—Vuntut Gwitchin Stories radio plays in Gwich’in and English. Flather co-founded Gwaandak Theatre, which celebrates Indigenous and Northern theatre stories, and worked twenty years there. A recipient of the Borealis Prize, she has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC. Flather is grateful to live on Kwanlin Dün First Nation and Ta’an Kwäch’än Council territory in Whitehorse, Yukon.