Such a Lovely Afternoon: Stories

By Patti Flather

Such a Lovely Afternoon is a dazzling debut collection from award-winning Yukon writer Patti Flather.

A feisty young tomboy grapples with gender roles with sometimes hilarious results, a refugee single dad struggles for dignity in his northern community, and a malfunctioning compost toilet and wacky neighbours upturn a woman’s island cabin life, among other tales.

Against vivid landscapes from Canada's West Coast to Hong Kong to the Yukon, Flather reveals poignant beauty, compassion and humour in everyday lives, with characters searching for identity and belonging, delving into their resilience and humanity.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
• Release date: Oct 27, 2022
• ISBN: 9781771338868

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.

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