SITTING PRACTICE

Three and a half weeks after his wedding Ross Alexander, film-caterer, besotted husband, drives his car into the side of a moving truck causing his bride and passenger, Iliana, a spinal cord injury. In the two years after the accident Ross struggles to accept how things are. Painful and hilarious is his transformation from an overweight, carnal agnostic filling the troughs of Hollywood North, to a vegetarian café guy on Vancouver Island with Buddhist leanings and (much to the dismay of the still lustful Iliana) celibate inclinations, to, finally, a cuckold. SITTING PRACTICE is not so much the story of a disability overcome, as a marriage ultimately healed.Caroline Adderson's first novel, "A History of Forgetting", was shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the Rogers/WDT Award, and praised by critics on both sides of the Atlantic. Her first collection of stories, "Bad Imaginings", was nominated for the 1993 Governor General's Award for Fiction and the 1994 Commonwealth Writer's Prize, and won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. She has been hailed by The Toronto Star literary critic Philip Marchand as one of the four most notable emerging writers in Canada.sold UK: Headlinesold: France: Belfond; Bulgaria: Zhar Publishers"[Adderson] writes with a rare understanding of human frailty." -The Times (London) "Adderson is one of Canada's smart new generation of novelists [who] writes with fine precision." -The Independent