"In her latest novel, A Hat Full of Tattered Butterflies, Gail
Anderson-Dargatz revisits the haunting and magical landscape of The Cure
for Death by Lightning. Beth is now an old woman and the novel is told
from the perspective of her daughter Kat. As the family struggles to
evacuate from the fire that threatens the whole of Turtle Valley, Kat
uncovers a decades-old mystery, the disappearance of her grandfather,
John. She hunts down the terrifying story of what really happened, and
in the process discovers the ghostly links between her mother's past and
her own quest to find love. The novel is filled with the lush
descriptions, dark poetry and ghostly manifestations that made The Cure
for Death by Lightning an international bestseller." -- Shuswap Writers Festival, 2005