This Unlikely Soil Gothic cousins who shared a passion

cousins who shared a passion for beauty and a refusal to submit to the roles imposed upon them

and getting involved with supportive communities both in real life and online

and tradition

Mimi Smithers

award-winning author of Simon vs

This Unlikely Soil Gothic cousins who shared a passionBy Andrea Routley In This Unlikely Soil, prize winning writer Andrea Routley delivers stories of queer women navigating love and life against the lush, isolated backdrop of Canadas West Coast. A dog that bites, a bear suffering from a hemorrhoid, an aggressive willow tree, berried up Dungeness crabs and erotic mussels The dense West Coast landscape of This Unlikely Soil echoes the fraught search for connection of the rural dwelling queer characters in