A posthumously published collection of eleven short stories by an author about whom the National Post wrote, “To say that Heighton as an immensely talented writer is true enough but insufficient … As good a writer as Canada has ever produced.” In stories about love and fear, idealisms and illusions, failures of muscle and mind and all the ways we try to care for one another, Steven Heighton’s Instructions for the Drowning is an indelible last collection by a writer working at the height of his powers.
