Everything Rustles

Literary Nonfiction. Finalist, Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes). Winner, CNFC Readers' Choice Award for THRESHHOLD. Staff Pick, BC BookWorld. Listed as one of the season's Ten Most Anticipated Books in the Himalayan Walking Shoes Journal. In this debut collection of personal essays, Silcott looks at the tangle of midlife, the long look back, the shorter look forward, and the moments right now that shimmer and rustle around her: marriage, menopause, fear, desire, loss, and that guy on the bus, the woman on the street, wandering bears, marauding llamas, light and laundry rooms.

It is a refreshing adventure to open a collection of essays that are exactly that: beautiful bursts of curiosity. To essay is to attempt, to make an effort (OED). Canadian author Jane Silcott presents an engaging array of attempts in essay form. Her efforts are honest musings of married life, being a woman of a certain age, and questioning her ability to understand the deep and personal... Every individual essay is succinct, but packed with emotion, a gazing eye, and an inner grounding. Silcott expresses the wisdom of a middle-aged woman with the curiosity of a young girl.--Examiner.com

Silcott has a strong voice, and like Didion's it is one that draws the reader in, page after page. In EVERYTHING RUSTLES, the Vancouver-based author examines that slow onset of fears, which are increasingly more pronounced as we age. This collection of short essays is written in an eloquent, poetic and deeply personal manner.--Vancouver Sun

Jane Silcott writes crisp and compelling narratives; as their import emerges, small epiphanies wink into consciousness, and we are taken up into everyday life. Reading this collection of her work we glimpse layers of the real that seem so often to conceal the world from us. A wonderful book, a book of wonders.--Stephen Osborne, Publisher, Geist Magazine