The Ben Calder Story

Ben Calder, an artist teaching at one of Canada s oldest independent girl s schools, is beginning to unravel. After a female student arrives from Italy, he realizes that he was in love with her mother in high school. When the mother arrives in Toronto for her daughter s 18th birthday, however, the daughter s jealousy precipitates Ben s fall. Probing the heart of contemporary malaise, this novel follows a man without faith, navigating through the moral and ethical dilemmas of modern life."