{"product_id":"a-minor-chorus-a-novel","title":"A Minor Chorus A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE \u003ci\u003e•\u003c\/i\u003e NATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003ci\u003e • \u003c\/i\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY \u003ci\u003eTHE GLOBE AND MAIL, \u003c\/i\u003eCBC, \u003ci\u003eELLE CANADA, LITERARY HUB, NATIONAL POST, \u003c\/i\u003eAND \u003ci\u003eDAILY HIVE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An achingly gorgeous debut novel of Indigenous survival.... This is a breathtaking and hypnotic achievement.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn urgent first novel about breaching the prisons we live inside from one of Canada’s most daring literary talents.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhether 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePopulated by characters as alive and vast as the boreal forest, and culminating in a breathtaking crescendo, \u003ci\u003eA Minor Chorus\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about how deeply entangled the sayable and unsayable can become—and about how ordinary life, when pressed, can produce hauntingly beautiful music.","brand":"Penguin Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55711803342921,"sku":null,"price":13.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0956\/5336\/3785\/files\/21120583482449.jpg?v=1780086782","url":"https:\/\/morebetterbooks.com\/products\/a-minor-chorus-a-novel","provider":"More Better Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}