The Secret History of My Hometown

The six stories in Andrew Boden's debut collection, The Secret History of My Hometown, comprise a reinvented history of the town of Cranbrook, British Columbia, from its birth in the late nineteenth century to its death and re-birth in 1983, after a Soviet missile strike. Moving by way of hard "what ifs" all the while grounded in the streets and surrounding wilderness of a town in southeastern B.C.

What if when the Sells Floto Circus lost six elephants into the Cranbrook wilderness, a youn...