Rough, Robin Van Eck
Rough, Robin Van Eck
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Rough
A Novel

Author: Robin Van Eck

Narrator: Rachel L. Jacobs

Unabridged: 10 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/27/2024

Synopsis

It is 2013 and Calgary's Bow river is beginning to rise. Two homeless men stand by the bank and contemplate the death of another friend–an accident?

Taking cover downtown that night, Shermeto intervenes in the attack on a bar patron, and finds himself laid up in the hospital. Outside, as the city reels from an unthinkable disaster, Shermeto finds himself away from the swelling river and face-to-face with a part of the past he is trying to hide from: his daughter Kendra.

About Robin Van Eck

Robin van Eck loves words. She writes mostly contemporary fiction but has also begun to re-explore her love of horror, the weird, and fantastic. In fact, a review of one of her stories compared her to the likes of Edgar Allan Poe. She is both locally and internationally published with stories and creative nonfiction appearing in FreeFall Magazine, Lamplight Magazine, Woven Tales Press, Minerva Rising, Routes Magazine, the Waiting Anthology, and many other anthologies and online publications. Her work has been short-listed for contests (once she even placed second) and was the finalist for the AMPA (Alberta Magazine Publishers) Award for Fiction in 2010. In her day job she is the executive director for the Alexandra Writers Centre Society in Calgary where she also teaches creative writing and mentors other writers. Rough is her first novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Booksandchinooks (Laurie) on December 20, 2020

Rough is a book that completely captivated me! It is a fictional story told around a devastating flood of the Bow River that occurred in 2013. I live in the city where the flood took place so I well remember how it devastated so many communities and the city as a whole. Homeless people or people sle......more

Goodreads review by Dawn on March 26, 2021

Rough took me places I needed to go. It got me thinking about homelessness and the thin margins of our life that we think of as 'protection'. Thanks Robin!......more

Goodreads review by Robin on March 15, 2021

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Goodreads review by Cindy on April 06, 2021

This is a great first book by an up and coming author. She brings her compassion to the page in her characterizations of the homeless, as well as the reality in father/daughter relationships. Her poetic description of the river as a character is beautiful. I look forward to reading more from this au......more

Goodreads review by Pam on August 03, 2021

Welcome to a Calgary you have never seen before--gritty, pained, sub-surface. There is a lot going on in this book, so if you like fast-paced, filagreed plots, and characters that live in your head after the last chapter is finished, this book is for you. Has Van Eck just invented a new genre: Calga......more

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