Stones

Blurb

Stones is the second book of short stories by Timothy Findley. It was first published by Viking Canada in 1988.
The first two stories, Bragg and Minna and A Gift of Mercy both detail the marriage of a homosexual man named Bragg and his Wife Minna. In Bragg and Minna, the two have a child, and it is born with six digits on each extremity and mental disabilities. Minna, after having left Bragg and moving to Australia in search of a family to take care of their child, dies at a very young age, and Bragg travels across the Pacific ocean to pick up her ashes and then spreads across the lands of the Ku-ring-gai.
A Gift of Mercy details how the couple met. Minna, working in a dinner on Queen Street, saw Bragg walk into the dinner in which she worked and is refused use of the telephone by the propitiator of the diner. Minna follows Bragg out of the and introduces herself. The two move from Queen Street, a decision made by Bragg who wanted to remove Minna from the influences of the area, but Minna still frequents the area and one evening brings a homeless woman home. Bragg is furious and eventually throws the woman out.