Sleeping Weather

Don Precosky teaches English at the College of New Caledonia and is the
co-editor of Four Realities: Poets of Northern B.C.

Sleeping Weather is a short, somewhat muted novel of character and
relationship. It takes on the underreported topic of the preservation of
a functioning family, as opposed to the more popular chronicling of a
dysfunctional family.

Leon Stone is building a good life after a disastrous childhood and
youth. But his past makes him too careful about his home life. He is in
danger of smothering his wife and child with love and protection. In his
new neighbor, Vasily, he can see a man who has managed to destroy his
own domestic situation. At first, Leon rejects Vasily, but then he is
drawn into a friendship with the tragically flawed immigrant. This
friendship changes Leon, giving him a new perspective that may divert
him from destroying his family the way both Vasily and Leon’s own
father destroyed theirs.

If you like realist fiction and/or domestic drama, this is the book for
you.