What happens when twelve writers with powerfully different styles and sensibilities create new stories in answer to a single question? What Is the Sound of Smoke? collects twelve fascinating new fictions, evoking unique worlds of emotion, character, love, humour, and intrigue...
Blindness, myth, bullying, and the death of a parent are explored. Totalitarian murder, a chance meeting, and climate change... One man is obsessed with shoes; another confronts his past when he runs into a former lover at a downtown restaurant; a jazz musician finds the cost of true music may be life-changing; a woman relives an intense love affair with a man across time; an art aficionado discovers the real-life subject of a work of art she loves, outside the museum... Every story in this book offers an opened heart and a sharp, refreshing vision.