From the highways of Cairo to the outports of Newfoundland, the soul-crushing cubicles of city work and the birds and bees of the Quebec countryside, these brilliant short stories lay bare the workings of power and the small acts of both courage and compromise by which those on the margins defy them. Beautifully cohesive across the stunning depth and range of setting and subject, there is nothing predictable about My Thievery of the People.