Books
The Left-Handed Dinner Party and Other Stories
Published by University of Alberta Press, 2017
The Left-Handed Dinner Party and Other Stories is Myrl Coulter’s first published work of fiction. In these short and shortish stories, all the characters struggle with the absence of at least one person who has disappeared prematurely from their lives. In the voids created by the missing loved ones, family secrets bubble to the surface, a recipe box moves itself around, dead grandfathers haunt, and a ghost lingers in a twenty-year limbo. As the book progresses, surprising connections emerge making the stories feel like one big puzzle.
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A Year of Days
Published by University of Alberta Press, 2015
After her mother succumbed to a rare form of dementia, Myrl Coulter turned the eulogy she had written for the funeral into a series of meditations on absence. The result is fifteen personal narrative essays that move through the vacations, holidays, special occasions, and ordinary days each year brings. Coulter reaches for the mother who is gone, yet ever-present, no matter where she is or what she is doing. In every captivating detail of Coulter’s world, A Year of Days offers readers an intimate odyssey of experience and catharsis.
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The House with the Broken Two
Published by Anvil Press, 2011
The House with the Broken Two: A Birthmother Remembers is a memoir about adoption, about growing up in the 60s, about being a mother in the 70s and 80s and 90s, about how individual lives collide with their moments in history, and, perhaps most of all, about the fragile unit we call family.