Just as stories abound under a fall canopy, a woman's insights, gatheredthroughout a reflective period beyond child-rearing and retirement, blossomcolourfully here.
Through poems, short stories, and personal reflections, life's intimate moments are distilled into their deeper essence as meaningfulperspectives on innocence, relationships, aging, grief, spirituality, memory, struggle and privilege.
The author's journeys through immigration, coming of age and motherhood, in their simplicity, take us along the pathsto universal truths with the unabashed openness of childhood and thehindsight and wisdom of older age.
Monkey Appetite will appeal to thereader who enjoys looking on life with humour, retrospect, and abandon.