this cake is for the party

Sarah Lucille Selecky

Sarah Lucille Selecky's collection of stories This Cake is for the Party explores the terrain of friendship, relationships, and food, in a terse, yet light prose. These character-driven stories follow a number of couples as they walk the hazardous line of trust and affection while dining with their closest friends.

Along with subtle portraits of people fumbling through relationships, Selecky's prose shines, with both lavish and understated details, giving the stories a rich ambiguity. The character's lives, which form constellation-like patterns, slowly emerge and in the process discover how arbitrary, yet alluring, those patterns can be, even when straining with the lightest possible things. The stories are also about coming and going, about our movements despite ourselves.

lucy selecky

Sarah Lucille Selecky holds a degree in Cultural Studies from Trent University and studied creative writing at the University of Victoria. Her stories have been published in The Sun Magazine, WordWorks, Fire and Reason and The Peterborough Review. She is a past Vice President of the Victoria School of Writing, where she taught a short fiction workshop series. She wrote these stories while living in Victoria.

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