King

Fiction. Fun and sad and true, KING feels like a slumber party: Just you and your best friend in sleeping bags whispering through the long night. This lively novel tells the story of Hazel, who, hoping to erase her unhappy old life, jumps into her beat-up old car and speeds away only to start a new life in the Evening and Morning Star Trailer Park. It's there that she meets King, a motorcycle-riding, hard-drinking, guitar-playing kind of guy who gives her previously hazy life a new center and a new clarity. But when King's brushes with the law land him in jail, things begin, slowly and surely, to unravel. Tanya Chapman is a graduate of the UBC creative-writing program. Her short story "Spring the Chick" won This magazine's Great Canadian Literary Hunt. She has had two short films produced and the Ontario Arts Council has supported her new manuscript, The Welcoming Place. She works as the Director of Communications at the Directors Guild of Canada, Ontario.