The Discovery of Honey

PRAISE FOR THE DISCOVERY OF HONEY “A postmodern picaresque.”—Quill & Quire “Griggs loves words in a way that can be contagious to the reader.”—National Post “The Discovery of Honey is packed full of vivid imagery, moving metaphors, precise prose, laugh-out-loud observations and sad essential truths.”—Winnipeg Free Press PRAISE FOR TERRY GRIGGS “The language, the verbal fireworks, the apparently limitless stream of image and metaphor—startling, heady, hilarious—do it all.”—The Globe and Mail “When her poetic sensibility is joined to a narrative that is both wildly comic and poignant in mood, which happens often in her stories, the results are superb.”—The Toronto Star “Griggs creates magical transformations with words alone.”—The Vancouver Sun “Terry Griggs [has] made her mark as an original and arresting writer with a potential to be consistently inventive and brilliant.”—Jury for the Marian Engel Award “She's a wildly inventive storyteller, gifted with a superb turn of phrase.”—Montreal Gazette

Thematically linked short stories about language and the battle of the sexes, in the tradition of Tristram Shandy.

The Discovery of Honey is a suite of short stories narrated by Hero, its hyper-precocious and nosily omniscient central character. Running wild even before she can walk, Hero goes on riotous road trips, dabbles in DIY dark magic, falls in and out of love with a feral bad-boy cousin, and kills a friendship with home truths. Funny business all around.

Terry Griggs is the author of the Governor General's Award-nominated book Quickening, as well as The Lusty Man, Rogues' Wedding, and Thought You Were Dead. Her popular children's novels include the Cat's Eye Corner series. She lives in Stratford, Ontario.