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A minor chorus : a novel

ISBN: 9780735242005 (hardcover)
Physical Description: 182 pages ; 20 cm print
Publisher: [Toronto] : Hamish Hamilton, 2022.
Copyright: &copy;2022
Badges: Top Holds Over Last 5 Years : 5 / 5.0

Summary: An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern Alberta in search of what eludes him: the shape of the novel he yearns to write, an autobiography of his rural hometown, the answers to existential questions about family, love, and happiness. What ensues is a series of conversations, connections, and disconnections that reveals the texture of life in a town literature has left unexplored, where the friction between possibility and constraint provides an insistent background score. Whether he's meeting with an auntie distraught over the imprisonment of her grandson, engaging in rez gossip with his cousin at a pow wow, or lingering in bed with a married man after a hotel room hookup, the narrator makes space for those in his orbit to divulge their private joys and miseries, testing the theory that storytelling can make us feel less lonely.