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In Catherine Cooper's "Nuclear Heartland," Ange lives with her mother in Souris, Manitoba, and hasn't seen her father in over a year, but here he is to take her on an overnight "environmental awareness" father/daughter road trip. He's going to show her where the nukes are buried in North Dakota? -- ?they're in farmers' fields across the state, in secret places with nicknames like Contaminated Evermore. He's charged up; she's preoccupied. Cooper is a fearless writer. She goes into crannies like she's stalking darkness itself. From the first lines of the story, she establishes a mood of dread that seeps into the sentences like smoke. Ange goes with her father because she feels sorry for him, but she regrets it right away, and the reader begins to worry that Ange is not safe with him. But is she in any actual danger, or has the threat of becoming sexually mature simply paralyzed her with anxiety? - Michael Redhill
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About the Author: Catherine Cooper is a Nova Scotian author with a master's degree in English literature and creative writing from Concordia University. Her first book, The Western Home: Stories for Home on the Range, was published by Pedlar Press in 2014. Her first novel, White Elephant, was a finalist for the 2017 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. She lives in New Zealand, where she is working on a second novel. catherinecooper.co
About the Guest Editor: BRICK is an international literary journal published twice a year out of Toronto. With a focus on literary nonfiction? -- ?and a willingness to stray when our hearts are taken? -- ?the magazine prizes the personal voice and celebrates life, art, and the written word with the most invigorating and challenging essays, interviews, translations, memoirs, belles lettres, and unusual musings we can get our hands on.
Michael Redhill is a novelist, poet, playwright and former publisher of Brick. He is the author of the novels Consolation and Martin Sloane, a finalist for the 2001 Giller Prize; the short story collection Fidelity; and the poetry collection Light-Crossing; among other acclaimed works. His forthcoming novel, Bellevue Square, will be published in September 2017. He lives in Toronto, ON.
About the Publisher: Electric Literature is an independent publisher amplifying the power of storytelling through digital innovation. Electric Literature's weekly fiction magazine, Recommended Reading, invites established authors, indie presses, and literary magazines to recommended great fiction. Once a month we feature our own recommendation of original, previously unpublished fiction. Recommended Reading is supported by the Amazon Literary Partnership, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. For other links from Electric Literature, follow us, or sign up for our eNewsletter.
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