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THE CROW VALLEY KARAOKE CHAMPIONSHIPS
THE CROW VALLEY KARAOKE CHAMPIONSHIPS combines the quirks of small-town culture with the warmth and understated humor of Schitt's Creek, the wit and grit of Kristen Arnett's Mostly Dead Things and the humanity and heart of Kevin Wilson's Nothing to See Here or Cathleen Schine's They May Not Mean To, But They Do.
THE CROW VALLEY KARAOKE CHAMPIONSHIPS follows five people who discover love, second chances, and newfound hope as the town's biggest night of the year spirals into chaos.
A year after forest fires sweep through the town of Crow Valley and claim the life of Dale Jepson, karaoke legend, local prison guard, and all around good guy,' the community holds a karaoke competition. But when a convicted arsonist escapes from nearby Crow Valley Correctional, the residents learn there's more on the line than a trip to the National Karaoke Championships. Marriages are at stake, jobs are jeopardized, sobrieties threatened, and second chances start to slip away as the community is forced, once again through misfortune, to rally together to save themselves and each other.
Told from alternating POVs, each with an intimate connection to the deceased Dale, THE CROW VALLEY KARAOKE CHAMPIONSHIPS is a story about the fires we all fight in lifefrom the smoldering embers to the blazing infernosand ultimately, that there is dignity in the struggle to keep singing, to keep fighting, to keep going, to keep livingno matter how high the flames get.
With themes of perseverance, self-compassion, hope, reconciliation and redemption, this is a perfect post-pandemic story that will have readers cheering for Crow Valley even as they learn that Dale might not have been the all around good guy he was believed to be.
Ali Bryan is a writer based in Calgary, Alberta. Her first novel, Roost, won the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction and was the official selection of One Book Nova Scotia. Her second novel, The Figgs, was released in 2018 and was a finalist for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. She won the 2020 Howard O'Hagan Award for Short Story. She is a Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards Emerging Artist recipient. Her debut YA novel, The Hill, was released in March 2021 from Dottir Press and was longlisted for the 2021 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize.
A year after forest fires sweep through the town of Crow Valley and claim the life of Dale Jepson, karaoke legend, local prison guard, and all around good guy,' the community holds a karaoke competition. But when a convicted arsonist escapes from nearby Crow Valley Correctional, the residents learn there's more on the line than a trip to the National Karaoke Championships. Marriages are at stake, jobs are jeopardized, sobrieties threatened, and second chances start to slip away as the community is forced, once again through misfortune, to rally together to save themselves and each other.
Told from alternating POVs, each with an intimate connection to the deceased Dale, THE CROW VALLEY KARAOKE CHAMPIONSHIPS is a story about the fires we all fight in lifefrom the smoldering embers to the blazing infernosand ultimately, that there is dignity in the struggle to keep singing, to keep fighting, to keep going, to keep livingno matter how high the flames get.
With themes of perseverance, self-compassion, hope, reconciliation and redemption, this is a perfect post-pandemic story that will have readers cheering for Crow Valley even as they learn that Dale might not have been the all around good guy he was believed to be.
Ali Bryan is a writer based in Calgary, Alberta. Her first novel, Roost, won the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction and was the official selection of One Book Nova Scotia. Her second novel, The Figgs, was released in 2018 and was a finalist for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. She won the 2020 Howard O'Hagan Award for Short Story. She is a Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards Emerging Artist recipient. Her debut YA novel, The Hill, was released in March 2021 from Dottir Press and was longlisted for the 2021 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize.
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