Roy Blomstrom Livres

On a summer afternoon, David Williamson almost—but doesn’t—run into a mirror version of himself in his upstairs bedroom. Downstairs, he finds that his world has changed, and so has he, in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. While investigating this same-but-different world, David meets Caroline Reynolds. She’s lost and in danger. Caroline’s ex-husband, Rey, is trying to kill her, and soon, Rey wants David dead as well.From a former student and a network of physicist friends, Caroline and David learn that they’re traveling through the multiverse—multiple versions of the universe. And ominously, Rey seems to be in charge of their trip. Defeating him requires Caroline and David to harness everything they can, from every iteration of the multiverse they visit and every version of themselves they meet or become. The Iterations of Caroline is the story of a woman growing into her power, the man who loves her, and the evil that pursues them both.

Labour Day, 1955. Near a creek in Port Arthur, Ontario, a man's body hangs at the end of a rope. The story of the body, and its missing shoe, begins in Finland, decades earlier and an ocean away. In January, 1918, civil war breaks out in Finland. Jussi Mantere and his friends, the Solbakken brothers-Anders, Karl, and Ivor, known as Rabbit-as well as Karl's wife, Viktoria, are swept into the fighting. The war rages for months and the country is laid waste. When peace is declared, the price of mending the fractured country is silence: to heal and forget, both victor and vanquished, White and Red, are asked to not speak of the war. In the ensuing years, Jussi and other survivors immigrate to Canada, bringing their silence with them. In Port Arthur's summer of 1955, events set in motion in 1918 come to haunt Jussi's family. A stranger-or is it someone Jussi knows?-threatens the peace and safety of his family. Jussi must decide whether and how to break his silence about the past and its horrors, and spare his grandson the bitter burden of generations-old resentments. Spanning nearly 50 years, this novel shows how a few months of fighting in the 1918 Finnish Civil War can still influence a family in Port Arthur, Ontario in 1955.