Flesh and Blood Author:Kenneth Radu On a farm in Ontario's Essex County during the Second World War, Rose, a woman of Romanian descent who lost her own farm in the dust bowl years of the '30s, embarks on an affair with Bobby, her black landlord. Having made that move, though, Rose can go no further, stranded by inertia in her lifeless marriage and torn between love for her... more » children and for her lover and landlord. For his part, Bobby fails to appreciate the possible consequences of an affair with a white woman, which, like his refusal to farm his parents' hard-won land, pits him against the social grain. Their story, held in a paralysis of love and fear, ends not with a bang but a whimper.« less