Set in the swinging sixties and each decade since, Cocktail reveals the schism between the lives we build up around us and our deepest hidden selves.
From the parking lot at Disney World to a Chinese restaurant in Halifax to an old-growth forest in BC, these intimate, immersive stories explore life\'s watershed moments, in which seemingly insignificant details--a pot of hyacinths, a freshly painted yellow wall--and the most chance of encounters come to exert a tidal pull..
A middle-aged man seeks to distract himself from the mess he\'s made of his marriage by flirting with a stranger on a country road.
A young mother discovers underneath the wallpaper a striking portrait that awakens inconvenient desires.
A lonely professional tries to convince herself that the working-class boyfriend she dumped in 1984 is her one true love.
A girl receives a bedtime visit from a drunken Cocktail party guest, who will haunt her fantasies for years.
Set in the swinging sixties and each decade since, Cocktail reveals the schism between the lives we build up around us and our deepest hidden selves
