By Bill MacDonald
Borealis Press, Softcover, $18.95
Set in Alabaster Bay, near a gypsum quarry on the North Shore of Lake Superior, our narrator walks us through a tale of his harrowing childhood in a seemingly quiet mining town into an equally disturbing adulthood. Along the way we learn of the strange relationships, fatal accidents and mysterious deaths that occurred during the quarry’s fall from prosperity. Suspicious house fires and hauntings are no surprise after you’ve learned what the people who live (or lived) here are really like.– Billi Carlson
