The Ballad of Vera’s Icebox
Overview
It’s 1948 and Vera Thompson is newly widowed. Her husband was an up-and-coming poet and novelist whose poetry and short stories were finding critical acclaim in all the best literary journals. They settled down in Port Dover and enjoyed their life until that fateful day on Georgian Bay. Now Vera is living in Burford, Ontario. That’s when the playwright Josie Darling arrives to tell her that her husband didn’t drown but committed suicide because of an aborted love affair. Vera’s got his letters, her euchre-playing friends, her memories and a broken ice box to help her answer some questions: Do we ever know the truth about someone we love? How do we emerge from the cocoon of mourning? And what does the afterlife smell like?
