In Way Up, grimy workers deal with love, fear, and death in the machine-mangled bush of the Canadian Shield and in the strangely urbane chaos of a Belgian forest. A restrained marriage silently unravels along the cliffs of Normandy, isolated grief is tragically contained on a tiny Nova Scotia island, and a man on a car trip flirts with his ex's morbid passion.

In thirteen surprising stories, Way Up illuminates the constant adjustments necessary to stay alive, aware, and fully human.