Heard you had some fun at Goose Brook, Uncle

By Menno Friesen

In these suspenseful stories and picturesque poems, readers witness highly entertaining, vivid, often hilarious images with backdrops of deep emotional and spiritual self-awareness. Heard You Had Some Fun at Goose Brook, Uncle includes an account of a disastrous snowmobile ride across two lakes in Labrador during spring melt, an escapade that was meant to take a break from small town life. The story is only one example of the writer’s exceptional skill in joining opposite extremes from very disparate worlds.

These vulnerable narratives help us all toward an understanding of ourselves and how we attempt in various ways to escape reality, pursue freedom, seek salvation, and strive for independence in an interdependent world. Readers will be inspired and challenged to honesty and consciousness of their own responses to both everyday and extraordinary encounters with the wider world and their inner selves.