Above Discovery

""Falkner’s stories are dark, transportive, and intimately detailed character studies. Her expansive interest in history is apparent, ingrained in the minutiae of each fiction [wherein] looking backward, the constraints of the past are unexpectedly and undeniably revealed as intertwined with those of the present. …[An] exciting debut from Falkner.""—Quill & Quire, Starred Review ""The twelve exquisite, elegant stories that make up Above Discovery navigate the liminal territory between reality and dream, life and death, the past and the present in a way that feels utterly fresh and enchanting.…[A] literary performance that soars.""—Steven W. Beattie, Toronto Star ""Above Discovery is Jennifer Falkner's debut collection, but being a first-timer didn't hold Falkner back in the least: epic, far-ranging, and filled with lavishly imagined tales, these stories are complex and unflinching, obsessed with history, myth, geography, the climate, and the inequalities and strangeness inhabited in those subjects[:] work and labour, loss and connection.""—Open Book ""Jen Falkner’s stories bring us not only into wondrous worlds, but deep into vivid and fascinating lives. It isn’t often that a collection invites you into its stories so completely that you come to inhabit its characters, but that’s exactly what’s on offer in Above Discovery. We as readers are enthralled, challenged, and implicated. This book is one to savour, and Jen Falkner is a writer to watch.""—Andrew Forbes, author of The Utility of Boredom and Lands and Forests ""Elegant and atmospheric. Falkner’s beautiful writing puts her readers right in her characters’ worlds and heads. ... I recommend treating this collection like a box of chocolates: read just one per day and savor it.""—Historical Novel Society