The 13 stories in Tangled with Leaves take place in settings as diverse as the ethereal bookshop of “Perfect Bindings”, the dreary graphic design firm of “With No One Nearby” and the back country roads and wide open fields of “In Motion”. A fresh and original debut collection from Canadian author Heidi Priesnitz.

“Heidi Priesnitz’s collection of thirteen short stories, Tangled with Leaves, is a display case of characters, mostly young women who are in a state of transition, struggling with a new perception or experience. These characters often drift freely between dream and reality. The entire book, in fact seems to be covered in a poetic gauze. There exists a sparseness, an economy of words which is nevertheless lush and steeped in metaphor. Priesnitz is most poetic when dealing with her character’s interactions with nature – specifically when they are making love al fresco, which many of them do, as in the line from which the title is taken: “where wood meets our bodies our hair falls tangled with leaves.”
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