At the Edge

A benign September morning brings strangers to an edge none could anticipate. A besieged father, an Agatha Christie expert, an incidental thief, enduring lovers, and runaway children (among others) converge on a university quadrangle spoiled by a gaping construction hole. All are absorbed by the complexity of their individual worlds, yet each one manages to skirt the danger — except one. In a most unexpected ending, we learn how that came to be, and why.

Project coordinators, Marjorie Anderson and Deborah Schnitzer, two contributors in the Dropped Threads anthologies, have collaborated with a collection of writers from across Canada and abroad to create this novel of intrigue. It is the first offering of the literary production enterprise, Unlimited Editions, and heralds new opportunities for collaborative writing that expand traditional ideas of genre and authorship.