The Rules of Playing Risk

By Kristen Da Silva

Unsociable retiree Garfield Lyons is eight weeks into recovery from an accident, aided by nurse Maggie who does house calls at his secluded Parry Sound home, when a letter arrives informing him that his estranged fourteen-year-old grandson Brandon is in need of a place to stay. Prevailed upon by outspoken Maggie, Garfield agrees to house the boy, setting grandfather and grandson on an obstacle course of generational divides and old familial wounds to find connection.