The best thing for you
Canadian fiction, General fiction, Serious and literary fiction
Human-narrated audio
Summary
In three novellas, the author reveals the potential for darkness that lurks behind even the most perfect-seeming veneer. In "No Fun," a middle-class family in present-day Vancouver is thrown into turmoil when their teenage son is charged in connection with… the beating of a disabled man. In "The Goldberg Metronome," a young couple discovers an antique metronome taped up and hidden under a sink in their new apartment. And in "The Best Thing for You", set in wartime 1940s Vancouver, a housewife in her twenties plots and carries out her husband's murder with sang-froid, with the help of her lover, a young grocery-store clerk. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2004.