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What Alexander McCall Smith did with 44 Scotland Street, Todd Babiak does with The Garneau Block. This addictive and charming, laugh-out-loud funny novel enchanted readers when it was serialized in the Edmonton Journal in the fall of 2005 - and now, The Garneau Block makes its national debut.
The Garneau Block follows the knowable citizens of the adored and hated city of Edmonton, capturing what we connect to in local stories and what is universal about modern life. Here, in what can only be described as a storytelling tour-de-force, we meet the warm, endearing, and delightfully flawed residents of a fictional cul-de-sac in the city's Garneau neighbourhood just after the scandalous death of a neighbour and the sudden news that their land is about to be repossessed by the university.
When mysterious signs begin to appear duct-taped to trees saying only LET'S FIX IT, the block - including a sacked university professor, a once-ambitious, knocked-up haiku expert living in her parents' basement, an aging actor whose dreams are slipping away, and a quiet but polite stranger - is galvanized to band together in a wild attempt to save their homes. And when regular people put their dreams in motion, anything can happen - namely, political machinations, personal revelations, a public uproar, and unforeseen love.
Trade Paperback. Like New condition.
9780771009907
Published in 2006 by Emblem. Originally published in 2006.
415 pages
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