In the prologue to Eric McCormack’s new novel, Cloud, the book’s narrator and protagonist, Harry Steen, recounts a tale that can scarcely be believed.
Steen discovers the story by accident. While attending a mining conference in the Mexican town of La Verdad—meaning “the truth”—he kills time one rainy afternoon in a used bookstore. A threadbare volume, The Obsidian Cloud: An Account of a Singular Occurrence within Living Memory over the Skies of the Town of Duncairn in the County of Ayrshire…
Michael Posner
Michael Posner is the author of The Last Honest Man: An Oral Biography of Mordecai Richler (McClelland and Stewart, 2005).