Once More with Feeling by Méira Cook
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Overview: After twenty years Max Binder is still in love with his fiery wife, Maggie, and is determined to get her the perfect birthday gift. The funny, tragic, often perverse story of the Binder family begins with Max’s singular desire to make his wife happy. Their sons, Sams and Lazar, are caught up in the consequences of their parent’s eccentricities while living their own willful and unruly teenage lives.
Set over the course of a single year in a western prairie city, Once More With Feeling tells the story of a community through intersecting moments and interconnected lives. In a city bisected by railway lines and rivers, Max Binder, suddenly shot through with loss, wanders the boulevards and back alleys, recognizing fellow citizens who make up a new community for him. He sees others haunted by loss: family and friends, the worker at a downtown soup kitchen who recognizes a kindred spirit amongst the homeless, the two aging spinsters who see the fleeting ghosts of missing children from their neighbourhood everywhere. In this year of transformation and upheaval, Max finally hears, and empathizes with, a communal voice of mothers all worrying for the future of their children in the discomfiting world they all inhabit: this city of weather, memory, amnesia, longing, and belonging.
Featuring a cast of eclectic characters, Once More With Feeling is about a city, about a community, about a family, and about the way time makes fond fools of us all. Award-winning author Méira Cook has crafted a haunting, profound novel that is at once funny, affecting, and yes, full of feeling.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction, Literature
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