![]() ![]() O’Neill could be considered the delightfully bizarre lovechild of Hugh MacLennan and Miranda July – if she weren’t so entirely herself. It is full to bursting – a choice on the author’s part that shows not only confidence but a heightened sense of play and vibrancy. This is a book in which more is more: easily half a dozen similes (many of them involving cats) crowd onto any given page, in much the same way the characters crowd into small apartments and nose their way into one another’s business. O’Neill knows just how far to tip you over without letting you fall. ![]() It’s a carnival ride of a book – bright, slightly disorienting, and incredibly fun. The story, while essential, is secondary to the fantastical atmosphere O’Neill creates. ![]() As the 1995 referendum approaches, Nouschka makes an innocent decision that accelerates her family’s descent into chaos. ![]() The family consists of 19-year-old twins Nouschka and Nicolas their once famous and now dissolute folk-singer father, Étienne, a faded Quebecois cultural treasure and their slightly mad grandfather Loulou. In the most distilled terms, Heather O’Neill’s sophomore novel tells the story of the Tremblay family of Montreal. ![]()
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