Cascadia Subduction Shift

In these forthright and personal fictions, Brian Kaufman pries open the lid on childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood to reveal an ungoverned world of adventure, risk, danger, and violence. Parental presence is oddly absent in these tales, and the inhabitants are left to establish their own rules for living and enforce them accordingly. At times uncanny, creepy, strange, surreal, and just plain weird, these oblique and often haunting pieces expose the forces that shape us, the tectonic shifts that rupture our psychological landscape, pushing us into the reformed geography of adulthood. Cascadia Subduction Shift ferries us across the fierce and turbulent waters of “coming of age” to a distant and—presumably—calmer shore.