Before I begin this review, let me first acknowledge my positive bias towards this book. The Garneau Block’s setting is an eponymous fictional cul-de-sac located in Edmonton’s Garneau neighbourhood in Strathcona, a part of town known for its historicity. I happen to live in Edmonton’s Garneau nei...
A riotous new novel from the #1 bestselling author of the hit sensation The Garneau Block.By all accounts, Stanley Moss is an average man. A retired florist, he lives quietly with his wife, Frieda, in a modest bungalow in Edmonton. Stricken with cancer, Stanley has few wishes for the time he has ...
It was built with seventies concrete, with a food court and a mall and a tower. On a grey afternoon the concrete conspired with the low cloud to refute every pretty song about Paris. He had registered as a Wall Street Journal reporter, in the city to write a series on the Maastricht Treaty—the ne...
In the warm months, before Toby grew too old to appreciate its magic, Edward Mushinsky would take his son up the mountain, and together they would walk, looking over their shoulders to be sure no one had followed. Other boys could visit, maps could be drawn, but only if these initiates were brave...