Autant reminds us that a little magic can create an energy that allows angels to visit and God to have a tequila at the bar, and for the generations of families it is the transcendent nature of magic that have bound them together in history and kept the endless sweep of love alive in their lives.

"If heaven is full of angels like me, hell must be empty," begins Autant, a tale woven over the course of four days and fifty-four years, based on the relationship between bees and one Franco-Albertan family, the Garances, of Autant, Alberta. Poised between an ever-practical God and a quixotically old Coyote, it is a tale told to explain the disappearance of bees in northern Alberta and becomes a sometimes-not-so-subtle exploration of how old and young, male and female, humans and non-humans perceive love.