A correction road is a line along which the vast grid of prairie roads is reset, and the distortion caused by the curvature of the earth is corrected. It is a place of conflict between man and nature. Hugh, an officer with the Alberta Rat Patrol, spends the autumn of 1979 along the roads on the Saskatchewan border, while the people around him try to deal with the traps that have been created in their lives by relationships, obligations and memories. Joan wants to build a future with Hugh, but is increasingly drawn to an enigmatic curator who visits her liquor store; Walt closes down his museum and allows his drinking to pull him back into his memories. Correction Road is a novel about the borders of our lives, the artificial borders we build and the natural borders we destroy.