~ Trade Paperback

~ Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction - 2010

Juliet, Saskatchewan is a blink-of-an-eye kind of town where it's easy to imagine that nothing happens on its hot dusty streets, and where its inhabitants find themselves caught in a limbo between a century-old promise of prosperity and whatever may lie ahead . . . 

A wonderfully entertaining, witty and deeply felt novel, Cool Water brims with forgiveness as its flawed people stumble towards the future.

"Cool Water evokes a Canadian west that is, like the American southwest, timeless and powerful and hauntingly beautiful." -- Bonnie Burnard, author of A Good House, Suddenly, and Women of Influence