The Upending of Wendall Forbes

Fiction
Pub date: September 13, 2025
5.5 x 8.5 in | 324 pgs
Trade Paperback: 9781988989969
ePub: 9781988989976

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Wendall and Ruby Forbes are confronting the vagaries of aging boomers – sleeplessness, loneliness, memory loss, and the fear Ruby is showing signs of dementia. A blizzard hits their small town of Twenty-six Mile House and a remarkable, perhaps unbelievable, band of strangers: an Indigenous Colombian refugee, his wife, an environmental academic and their child; a young man on an accidental journey quest; a teenage activist and her ten-year-old gay half-brother; and a sleep consultant in Indianapolis – all take refuge in the Forbeses’ home. The companionship of strangers, a foul-mouthed raven and a lynx, restore Wendall and Ruby’s hope for the future. This is a heartbreaking, funny, wise and hopeful story.

About the Author

David Giuliano is an award-winning writer of fiction and non-fiction. His first novel, The Undertaking of Billy Buffone (Latitude 46, 2021), was awarded the 2022 Bressani Prize for Fiction. It’s Good to Be Here: Stories We Tell About Cancer is a memoir about the power of story to heal. Postcards from the Valley, a collection of essays, was a Canadian bestseller. He has also published two illustrated children’s books. David lives on the north shore of Lake Superior.