Underground is about a Canadian’s search for purpose as he journeys from the mud of the Somme to the burnt fields of civil war Spain. A journey of self-discovery, the story of Albert Fraser moves from the horrors of war to the squalor and strife of the 1930s in Canada. Battle-scarred, he searches for an answer to the question, Who am I? and, in a seemingly rash and contradictory act, returns to conflict in Spain.

For a visual synopsis of Underground, click here.

A Cormorant Books lead title in spring 2009, Underground was called “taut and lean, elegant and poetic” by the Globe and Mail. It was nominated for the Ontario Library Association’s 2010 Evergreen Award, was a Vancouver Sun Must-read BC Book for Fall 2009, and a CBC Cross-Country Check-up as well as BC Almanac and Studio 4 recommended read for summer 2009.  

June’s short fiction has appeared in Pottersfield Portfolio (she won its compact fiction competition), as well as in The Capilano Review, Other Voices, and Contemporary Verse 2. She is at work on a second novel, and leads workshops for emerging writers. For more details about her and her work, please see her website.
June is represented by John Pearce of Westwood Creative Artists.

Photo of June by Janet Baxter