THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY
short stories
(new edition to be published March 2000 by Vintage Canada)

From the author of the well-loved FABLES OF BRUNSWICK AVENUE, another collection of short stories which enlarges and deepens Katherine Govier's literary terrain. The title story, a prize winner in the CBC Literary Contest, deftly evokes the moral dilemmas of a photographer in Toronto's Little Italy who erases an errant bridesmaid from the wedding photos. In "Aliens", what appears to be a U.F.O. lands among the islands of Georgian Bay, while the women occupy family cottages.

In "The Picnic", an overwrought father in a speedboat on the Niagara River takes his wife and child to the brink of the falls. Motherhood, whether metaphorical or otherwise, ties these stories together in a collection which is fierce, ironic, magical and very much Govier.