As Carrie observes, he "seemed to have come from nowhere, from no place, and no time in particular. Yurig is one of the most pleasurably inscrutable characters I have encountered in my recent reading. I think their courtship must have been as mysterious to her as it is to us.
Yurig turned up in the doorway, there was something about him she was drawn to, she could not have said herself just what it was as she waited in that dark alley behind the bar.did not, as she points out, even realize it was in fact Yurig she waited for. She is amazed at herself and at this life, but of course not in the informal sense of amazing (impressive) but rather she is surprised and wondering herself at where she's landed. I think you've hit on it exactly: Yurig was simply the next thing Carrie bumped along to.
And then she immediately meets Yurig, The Euro, who supplies the pub with venison. Before the story opens, she'd picked up shifts at the Log House Pub after losing her job at the local mill, only to walk away from it when asked why she'd floated free beer and burgers to regulars who were out of work. Until she marries Yurig, she seems to have bumped along from one thing to the next.
After years of living off grid in the British Columbia interior, Jacqueline Baker lives in the metropolitan centre of Edmonton.Įarly in the story, Carrie describes herself as "amazing"-as if she were as amazed at herself as much as she assumes her friends to be-for ending up living in the middle of nowhere. Her latest novel, The Broken Hours, is a literary ghost story about the final months of the life of horror icon H. She is the author of A Hard Witching & Other Stories and The Horseman's Graves. In "Down Burned Road," which appears in The Malahat Review's Autumn 2016 issue, Jacqueline Baker tells the story of Carrie and Yurig, and the first years of their marriage, which they live against a backdrop of rugged mountains, bears, and cougars in a house not easy to find if you don’t know where you’re going.
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