In The Sleep of Apples Ami Sands Brodoff writes with passion and consummate skill about nine closely linked characters who walk the tightrope of survival. Set in a gritty Montreal neighbourhood thats been slowly gentrifying over the last two decades troubled teenagers and an experienced psychiatrist a truck driver permanently scarred by a nearfatal accident and a recreation therapist struggle to build a community and make their livesand their deathsmeaningful. Fierce original and bracingly