Early stories from this Vermont writer and university professor, originally from Canada.  Norman writes about real people in real situations, from the Eskimo Jenny Aloo who chooses to freeze to death in a blizzard on the train platform in order to be near her son, Moses, whom she is convinced is trapped in a jukebox to Lola and Harry, exiles from Hollywood to a motel in central Vermont where they relive her screen triumph at the drive in that Harry manages in the depth of winter for her 50^th birthday.  Along the way we meet a train engineer who survives a milk train derailment, a trotter announcer who loses his love to a jockey, a drifter who falls in love with a kissing booth woman and follows her his whole life,  and my favorite,14 year old Jake from Windsor, Ont who visits his Aunt Helen in Halifax, NS and gets to attend her wedding at the reunion of the WSCF (Women Survivors of the Caribou  Ferry) in 1959.  Early evidence of Norman’s fine touch with characters and story.  You like his people and care about them, a job well done by a writer of fiction.