Every Light in Every Window, Every Tooth in Every Mouth

A character-driven novel of grief and longing—five people reaching for connection while keeping the world at a distance.As winter settles over Edmonton, their separate lives begin to collide through illness, faith, and regret.

When Julian's brain tumour returns, he's haunted by a city that no longer exists—and by the version of himself that once moved through it—as he struggles with the shame his illness brings. At a café, Lena pours coffee for strangers while mourning the man she wasn't ready to lose. Adrienne rehearses the words she'll never say to her husband. And Hugh, caught between desire and belief, watches his world fracture when a figure from his past arrives in the hospital where he works.

Told through shifting perspectives—first-person confession and third-person witness—Every Light in Every Window, Every Tooth in Every Mouth follows ordinary people, cut off from one another by shame, faith, and memory, as they try to bridge the distance between them.For readers of Station Eleven, Small Things Like These, and Stoner, this haunting novel explores faith, masculinity, grief, and the raw need to be known.