BOOKS - Wonder World: A Novel
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Wonder World: A Novel
Author: K.R. Byggdin
Year: April 15, 2022
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.6 MB
Language: English
Year: April 15, 2022
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.6 MB
Language: English
Winner of the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction AwardFinalist for the ReLit Award for Fiction"What this town has done, it's like pickling people. Taking us when we're young and fresh and vulnerable, sticking us in a jar and filling us with all these rules they hope will preserve us from the rotting decay of worldliness. But you can't brine someone in that much guilt and shame their whole lives and expect them not to change. Shrivel into mere husks of their former selves, sour as vinegar."Twenty-seven-year-old Isaac Funk is broke, drifting, and questioning his lonely existence on the East Coast. Having left his conservative hometown of Newfield, Manitoba full of piss and vinegar, Isaac's dreams of studying music and embracing queer culture in Halifax have gradually fizzled out. When his grandfather dies and leaves him a substantial inheritance, Isaac is pulled back to the Prairies for the first time in ten years. Finding his father Abe just as enigmatic and unreachable as always and his extended family more fragmented than ever, Isaac begins to wonder if there will ever be a place for him in Newfield. Is the prodigal son home for good, or is it time to cut and run once more?
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