In this moving novella, Peter Abbot has penned a moving meditation on what it means to live --- and to die. In short order, Derrick deals with the passing of his Auth Martha, home from South Africa to die; the loss of his best friend ＂Pip＂; the implications of hundreds of children’s graves newly found at former residential school sites; and the grisly end of his long-lost uncle, gunned down on the sidewalk outside Derrick’s house.

What does it all mean? Does it mean anything at all? Exeunt, like all of Abbot’s works, looks unflinchingly at the dark corners of the human condition, yet finds hope in the hidden strengths of the human heart.