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The Reeds
A Novel
2024
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A single summer changes the trajectory of each member of this close-knit family, changing their lives — and the family — forever.“Sharp, wildly hilarious, touching, and profound … Maybe art can’t be perfect, but Arjun Basu comes as close as it gets.” — Chris Harding, author of Pickard County AtlasThe Reeds are a very loving, slightly dysfunctional family — but a summer of individual changes is about to shake their tight family unit...
Waiting for the Man
A Novel
2014
EN
An advertising man searches for meaning in this "fascinating dissection of the media world we live in . . . A thought-provoking road-trip tale" ( Chicago Tribune).Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller PrizeIn his mid-thirties, Joe works as an advertising copywriter for a slick New York agency. But he feels disillusioned with his life, and finds himself experiencing dreams about a mysterious man, seeing him on the street, hearing his voice. ...
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"These 15 new stories celebrate the differences between us and our northern neighbor. As in any good noir, poverty, drugs, and despair cloud many of the characters' lives. But even the stories about druggies have a certain je ne sais quoi...Whether it's the quirkiness of the characters, the ingenuity of the puzzles, or the big hearts inside some of the darkest villains, noir's different north of the border."--Kirkus Reviews"American crime f...
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The Reeds
A Novel
- Narrated by
- Andrew Shaver
Unabridged
11 hours 40 min
2024
EN
A single summer changes the trajectory of each member of this close-knit family, changing their lives — and the family — forever.“Sharp, wildly hilarious, touching, and profound … Maybe art can’t be perfect, but Arjun Basu comes as close as it gets.” — Chris Harding, author of Pickard County AtlasThe Reeds are a very loving, slightly dysfunctional family — but a summer of individual changes is about to shake their tight family unit...
- Narrated by
- Graham Rowat
Unabridged
10 hours 6 min
2015
EN
Joe, a 35-year-old advertising copywriter for a slick New York company, feels disillusioned with his life. Soon he starts dreaming of a mysterious man and, not long after, begins seeing him on the street and hearing his voice. The voice overwhelms Joe and he starts to listen to it, camping out on the front steps of his stoop, waiting for instructions. The media take note. And soon he has become a story, a media sensation, the centre of a storm. When the voice tells him to "go West," he doe...
$33.99 CAD
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**Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, People, Los Angeles Times, NPR, and moreWinner of France’s Prix du Premier Roman Étranger“An inventive ode to self-determination and also a surrealistic vision of Black life as forged within the crucible of American history . . . [written in] lush, ornamental prose.” —The New Yorker“Fans of The Underground Railroad, The Water Dancer, and Let Us Descend w...











