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International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction, the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, the Trillium Book Award for Fiction, the CAA–MOSAID Technologies Inc. Award for Fiction, and at the Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Awards, MacLeod won for Fiction Book of the Year and Author of the Year. In 2004, his well-known Christmas story,
To Every Thing There Is a Season
, appeared as a short gift book, illustrated by Peter Rankin.
    In the years since then, MacLeod has received many further honours, becoming an Officer of the Order of Canada, and in the United States winning the Lannan Award and the PEN /Malamud Award. He continues to receive honorary degrees, and has given lectures and readings from his work in cities around the world. He and his wife, Anita, have six children and eight grandchildren. They live in Windsor when they are not in Cape Breton.

Notes and Acknowledgements
    Remembrance
is an original story commissioned from the author by the Vancouver Writers Fest. The story was first published as a limited-edition chapbook by the Vancouver Writers Fest to mark its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2012.
    The author would like to thank Doug Gibson for his help and editorial insight.
    The Vancouver Writers Fest would like to thank Doug Gibson, Peter Cocking, and Jessica Sullivan for donating their time and expertise to this project; Rob Sanders for his advice; and Bonnie Mah for her generous donation.
    Thanks to McClelland & Stewart and Random House of Canada Limited for their support and for publishing an e-book edition of
Remembrance
.

Also by Alistair MacLeod
    The Lost Salt Gift of Blood
(stories, 1976)
    The stories in Alistair MacLeod’s first collection are remarkably simple – a family is drawn together by shared and separate losses, a child’s reality conflicts with his parents’ memories, a young man struggles to come to terms with the loss of his father. Yet each piece of writing in this critically acclaimed collection is infused with a powerful life of its own, a precision of language and a scrupulous fidelity to the reality of time and place, of sea and Maritime farm. Focusing on the complexities and abiding mysteries at the heart of human relationships, the seven stories of
The Lost Salt Gift of Blood
map the close bonds and impassable chasms that lie between man and woman, parent and child.
    As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories
(stories, 1986)
    The superbly crafted stories collected in Alistair MacLeod’s second book of stories depict men and women acting out their “own peculiar mortality” against the haunting landscape of Cape Breton Island. In a voice at once elegiac and life-affirming, MacLeod describes a vital present inhabited by the unquiet spirits of a Highland past, invoking memory and myth to celebrate the continuity of the generations even in the midst of unremitting change.
As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories
confirms MacLeod’s international reputation as a storyteller of rare talent and inspiration.
    No Great Mischief
(novel, 1999)
    Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Trillium Book Award, and the Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Awards for Fiction Book of the Year and Author of the Year
.
    Alexander MacDonald guides us through his family’s mythic past as he recollects the heroic stories of his people: loggers, miners, drinkers, adventurers; men forever in exile, forever linked to their clan. There is the legendary patriarch who left the Scottish Highlands in 1779 and resettled in “the land of trees,” where his descendants became a separate Nova Scotia clan. There is the team of brothers and cousins, expert miners in demand around the world for their dangerous skills. And there is Alexander and his twin sister, who have left Cape Breton and prospered, yet are haunted by the past. Elegiac, hypnotic, by turns joyful and sad,
No Great Mischief
is a spellbinding story of family, loyalty,