Grey: Stories For Grown-Ups

by Judy MacDonald

Grey is a baby. Grey is a bad date. Grey battles a tornado, flies past giant monkeys, and pauses to watch an old woman with her lists. Judy MacDonald is a modern-day Jane Bowles, and from her comes this startling collection of stories called Grey . These stories toy with fact and fiction, autobiography and invention, memory and make believe. Grey proves that a misunderstood color can be far from dull. Read about a girl falling in love with a giraffe. Learn about one young boy’s favorite breastfeeding scenarios. Observe several kinds of relationships. Join the author for an afterlife visit with Stanley Kubrick. Grey —with delicious and McSweeney-esque observation, sharp dialogue, colorful characters—ages well. Praise for Grey : "MacDonald demonstrates her skill with voice, nailing character . . . there is a wealth of intriguing, original ideas in this collection."— Quill & Quire "MacDonald’s characters are an impressively varied cast . . . she writes with delicacy, humour, and sympathy."— Globe & Mail Judy MacDonald is a writer and journalist in Toronto. She’s the winner of a Rogers Communications/Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.

192 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2001