Montreal Cats

Braun’s third collection of short fiction again reveals the unseen—the secret exceptions to the everyday hidden behind closed doors and inside her characters’ collective unconscious.

Lois Braun is a writer in the lineage of Flannery O’Connor.

—Rudy Wiebe, author of Scorched Wood People and The Mad Trapper

There is often an element of mystery in Braun’s stories, an eerie feeling that some things are unknowable... she writes with assurance and poise.

—William French,