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BAD IDEAS

Missy Marston

Wildly funny and wonderfully moving, Bad Ideas is about just that ? a string of bad ideas ? and the absurdity of love

Trudy works nights in a linen factory, avoiding romance and sharing the care of her four-year-old niece with Trudy's mother, Claire. Claire still pines for Trudy's father, a St. Lawrence Seaway construction worker who left her twenty years ago. Claire believes in true love. Trudy does not. She's keeping herself to herself. But when Jules Tremblay, aspiring daredevil, walks into the Jubilee restaurant, Trudy's a goner.

Loosely inspired by Ken “the Crazy Canuck” Carter's attempt to jump the St. Lawrence River in a rocket car, and set in a 1970s hollowed-out town in eastern Ontario, Bad Ideas paints an indelible portrait of people on the forgotten fringes of life. Witty and wise, this is a novel that will stay with you a long time.

Missy Marston's first novel, The Love Monster, was the winner of the 2013 Ottawa Book Award, a finalist for the CBC Bookie Awards and the Scotiabank Giller Prize Readers' Choice.

FLIEGEN ODER FALLEN
Deutsch von Alexandra Rak
[HC Goya 08/2022]
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Published 2019-04-01 by ECW Press

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Always illuminating and never sentimental, Bad Ideas is an honest look at what it means to dream big in a small town. Oh, and there's a surprise ending that's absolutely glorious. (New York Times bestselling author Jennifer McCartney)