Tuckahoe Slidebottle

*Shortlisted for the 2007 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour

*Shortlisted for the 2007 Howard O'Hagan Short Fiction Award (Alberta Book Awards)

What happens in the small prairie town of Tuckahoe? An irresponsible drifter fakes a unique illness to break an engagement. A preacher stops a feud by performing an impromptu wedding. A minister's wife rescues a young man from the threat of blindness. A woman scandalizes a town by naming her children after different fathers. A schoolteacher finds love on a woodpile. A wanted man starts a new life in a piano box. And a hen-pecked husband repairs his marriage by getting drunk and losing his money.

Neil McKinnon's debut collection kicks up some dust, skews small town hokum, and offers a wrap on the knuckles for the individuals of the classic prairie town of Tuckahoe. Throughout the desperation and adversity rides an undercurrent of sly humour.