tarps
tarp shack
three narrative voicesathree successive generations in one family tell their own interconnected storiesaone story really of the events that take place at one tarp shack in a woodlot the archetypal secret hideout in the woods . phil a stroke victim is imprisoned both in his wheelchair and in his own angry past . while fuming away towards final combustion in the nursing home he bonds with his disaffected and alienated grandson jason . both are wannabe dropouts the one from life and the other from high school . oneas anger is tempered by the otheras humour . phil and jason are connected through a middle generation fern . he is philas son and jasonas father and he can not bear to lose either of them while trying to deal with the ghosts from his own past .