<div>&quot;Powerful ... full of dark nostalgia.&quot;<b>Nathan Englander</b><br><br><i>The Lifeboat<br><br>All night in his lifeboat my father sang<br>to keep the voices of the other men<br>who cried in the wreckage from reaching him,<br><br>he sang what he knew of the requiem,<br>of the hit parade and the bits of hymns,<br>he sang until he would never sing again,<br><br>scalding his raw throat with sea-water<br>until his ribs heaved, until the salt<br>wept from his eyes on dry land,<br><br>flecked at his lips in his squalling rages,<br>streaked the sheets in his night sweats<br>as night after night the reassembled ship<br><br>scattered its parts on the shore of his bed,<br>and the lifeboat eased him out again<br>to drown each night among singing men.</i><br><br>Inspired by a shipwreck endured by her father during the Second World War, and by his struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder and eventual suicide,<i>Inheritance</i> is a powerful poetic debut by the winner of the 2013 <i>Boston Review</i> Fiction Contest and<i>The Malahat Review</i> Far Horizons Award.<br></div>