A Three-Tiered Pastel Dream: Stories [Paperback]

A career-focused woman finds her life taken off course by an unexpected pregnancy. A troubled doctor abandons her family on her daughter’s birthday, the three-tiered pastel layer cake in the passenger seat beside her. A young mother must contend with how to explain her husband’s suicide to their child. In her first story collection, Lesley Trites digs bravely into the dilemmas faced by contemporary women who must be everything to everyone. Written with keen insight and deep affection, Lesley Trites’sA Three-Tiered Pastel Dreamunearths pearls of wisdom from the secret lives of everyday women.

Lesley Tritesis the author of a collection of poetry,echoic mimic. Her fiction has recently appeared incarte blanche,The Tupelo Quarterly, and the anthologySalut King Kong: New English Writing from Quebec, and her nonfiction has been published inThe Los Angeles Review of Books, andThe Montreal Gazette, among others. A finalist in the 2013 Quebec Writing Competition, Lesley grew up in Fredericton, New Brunswick and now lives in Montreal.