WHERE ALL YOU CAN SEE IS SKY: 

a novel

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Carving is easy — you just go down to the skin and stop.

- Michaelangelo

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Jan Shirley is facing a summer of uncomfortable change. Money troubles have already forced a move to a rough neighbourhood that still doesn’t feel like home, and now his annual trip to the spot where his parents died has been cancelled. When he and his best friend Emmaline start a vegetable garden to help pass the long, hot days, they uncover a set of tarnished dog tags and set out to reunite them with Allison, a troubled army veteran who lives nearby. As the garden grows greener with each passing day, a halting friendship with Allison grows, too, uncovering trauma, grief, and the fiercest loyalty. And this mismatched trio will learn just how full, challenging, and good a disrupted summer can be.

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AUTHOR'S NOTE: my family has a camping tradition, where at bedtime we all lay in the tent and I tell a story. How it works is, I come up with a loose plot, my wife and daughters help fill out the characters, and then off we go. While most of the stories stay in the tent, so to speak, this story demanded that I tell it, and so I have. This is a self-published love-project dedicated to my favourite humans — Rosalee, Nora, and Alida — but I'd also like to share it with the world, free from financial barriers. As such, I've decided to make it available for no cost (see download links below) or in print/Kindle at Amazon for a small fee to cover costs. I hope you like it!

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Book cover and Knute Point logo designed by Yours Truly.