The Weather

Single Story Taken From Vanishing And Other Stories

Author Deborah Willis

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As a young girl, Tabitha’s father mysteriously walks out the front door, with nothing but his coat and umbrella, never to return. But as we learn in “Vanishing” nothing disappears completely from our lives. Tabitha vanishes from her own life, and we are left wondering if we can ever really know a person, or ourselves. With elegance and craft, Deborah Willis’s stories linger, as her characters vanish between the pages.

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May 12, 2009

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DEBORAH WILLIS’s last short story collection, The Dark and Other Love Stories, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her first book, Vanishing and Other Stories, was named one of The Globe and Mail’s Best Books of 2009, and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for fiction. Her work has also appeared in The Walrus, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, Lucky Peach, and Zoetrope. She has worked as a bookseller at Munro’s Books in Victoria, BC, as a technical writer, and as a writer-in-residence at Joy Kogawa House in Vancouver, MacEwan University, and the University of Calgary. Deborah currently works as an editor at Freehand Books and lives in Calgary with her partner and daughter.