Dexter Cooke is stuck in a rut. He teaches at the same grade school he once attended. His lukewarm marriage has suffered three miscarriages. In Des Kennedy's Flame of Separation (Insomniac $21.95), Dexter's world changes when a student is visited by the charismatic shaman Dexter himself encountered at seventeen. Kennedy is a Denman Island journalist and environmental activist whose books have been shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. 1-894663-64-0