MY LIFE AMONG THE APES

Covering a wide range of human experience with humour and grace, My Life Among the Apes is a testament to Cary Fagan's mastery of his craft.

In”The Floating Wife”, a woman looks back on the life of her husband, a retired judge whom she left after he refused to give up on his dream of being a magician. In “Shit Box”, a young man exiled from the downtown arts scene adjusts to life in a suburban community of new immigrants. A widow moves to New York to confront her late husband's mistress in “The Brooklyn Revenge”. In “My Life Among the Apes”, a bank manager in a bad situation turns to his childhood obsession with Jane Goodall for inspiration. “Lost at Sea” tells of a young couple who visit a furniture maker in search for their true course. A humble young waiter realises his dream on an unusual New Year's Eve in “The Little Underworld of Edison Wiese”. CARY FAGAN is an award-winning children's author, a writer of adult novels, an editor and a contributor to a number of magazines and newspapers, including The Globe and Mail, The Montreal Gazette, and Books in Canada. His work has won the City of Toronto Book Award and the Jewish Book Committee Prize for Fiction. Cary lives in Toronto with his family.