Black Bird

Black BirdBy: Michel Basilieres In this wholly original novel alive with misfortune and magic, Michel Basilires uncovers a Montreal not seen in any other English Canadian work: a forgotten blue collar neighbourhood in between the two solitudes. Gothic, outrageous, yet tender and wise, Black Bird is as liberating as the dreams of its wayward characters, and as gripping as the insurgencies that split its heart. The Desouches have inhabited the same run down house

They make up the rules as they go

All Cassidy has to do is be available a few hours a week for errands

Stolzoff punctures the myths that keep us chained to our jobs

but her illusions of grandeur dissipate when she gets a call from the "dead" man himself

The delicious dilemma: Everyone thinks her archenemy Heather is to blame

By: Maddie Day     It’s the beginning of a new year

So when Rutherford

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and possibly owns a houseboat—her problems would disappear and her life would be perfect

Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic

Convinced of his own genius

but it's also the source of trouble between Aunt Jane and Grandfather