A Week of This follows the lives of an extended family over one increasingly desperate week. At the centre of the novel is 38-year-old Manda, a tough, sarcastic woman who has yet to make peace with the town she was brought to as a teenager after her parents' messy divorce. Full of barbed dialogue and hilariously deadpan descriptions of family dynamics and the kind of awkward social dances that are performed every day, A Week of This is a book for people who always feel a little out of place wherever they are.
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Nathan Whitlock's writing has appeared in The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, Maisonneuve, Canadian Notes & Queries, Geist, Best Canadian Essays, and elsewhere. He grew up in the Ottawa Valley and currently lives in Toronto, ON.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. A brilliant, darkly comic, and startlingly honest novel, A Week of This follows the lives of an extended family over one increasingly desperate week. At the centre of the novel is 38-year-old Manda, a tough, sarcastic woman who has yet to make peace with the town she was brought to as a teenager after her parents messy divorce. Her estranged mother is crazy, her father is ill and in retreat, her damaged older brother is growing restless and distant, her stepbrother is a grown-up teenager without any real friends, and her husband is a tight-lipped, depressed store-owner who has been pressing Manda to have a baby.Full of barbed dialogue and hilariously deadpan descriptions of family dynamics and the kind of awkward social dances that get performed every day, A Week of This is a book for people who always feel a little out of place, right where they are. People who are smart enough to know something has gone wrong, but cant figure out how to fix it. People who know they arent kids anymore, but are not quite ready to grow up.A Week of This is bleak, funny, sad, smart, and unlike any novel I have ever read. The lives of these characters are so richly imagined I could taste the furnace dust, smell the backed-up sewer, feel the thump of every hangover. Its an authentic, unsentimental literary experiment that doesnt read like an experiment. Nathan Whitlock has exposed the timeless heart of lower-middle-class everywhere. Todd Babiak, author of The Book of Stanley and The Garneau Block. BackLit bonus material includes an explorative essay by the author and more. This novel follows the lives of an extended family over one increasingly desperate week. At the centre of the novel is 38-year-old Manda, a tough, sarcastic woman who has yet to make peace with the town she was brought to as a teenager after her parents' messy divorce. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781770410367
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