Reproduction ; a novel
Williams, Ian
Reproduction ; a novel / Ian Williams - Canada : Vintage Canada Edition , 2019 - 448 p. ; 23 cm.
Felicia, a nineteen-year-old student from a Caribbean family, and Edgar, the lazy-minded and impetuous heir of a wealthy German family, meet by chance when their ailing mothers are assigned the same hospital room. After the death of Felicia's mother and the recovery of Edgar's, Felicia drops out of high school and takes a job as caregiver to Edgar's mother. The odd-couple relationship between Edgar and Felicia, ripe with miscommunications, misundertandings, and reprisals for perceived and real offenses, has some unexpected results. Years later, Felicia's son Armistice - 'Army' for short is a teenager fixated on a variety of get-rich-quick schemes that are as comic as they are indicative of the immigrant son's fear of falling through the cracks. When Edgar re-enters Felicia's life at a typically (for him) inopportune moment, the book's exhilarating final act is set in motion and the full import of its title is revealed.
English
Scotiabank Giller Prize winner
9780735274068
Single-parent families---Fiction
Man-woman relationships----Fiction
Interpersonal relations----Fiction
High school dropouts---Fiction
Women caregivers---Fiction
Single mothers----Fiction
Families----Fiction
Authors, Canadian
Toronto (Ont.)---Fiction
FIC WIL
Reproduction ; a novel / Ian Williams - Canada : Vintage Canada Edition , 2019 - 448 p. ; 23 cm.
Felicia, a nineteen-year-old student from a Caribbean family, and Edgar, the lazy-minded and impetuous heir of a wealthy German family, meet by chance when their ailing mothers are assigned the same hospital room. After the death of Felicia's mother and the recovery of Edgar's, Felicia drops out of high school and takes a job as caregiver to Edgar's mother. The odd-couple relationship between Edgar and Felicia, ripe with miscommunications, misundertandings, and reprisals for perceived and real offenses, has some unexpected results. Years later, Felicia's son Armistice - 'Army' for short is a teenager fixated on a variety of get-rich-quick schemes that are as comic as they are indicative of the immigrant son's fear of falling through the cracks. When Edgar re-enters Felicia's life at a typically (for him) inopportune moment, the book's exhilarating final act is set in motion and the full import of its title is revealed.
English
Scotiabank Giller Prize winner
9780735274068
Single-parent families---Fiction
Man-woman relationships----Fiction
Interpersonal relations----Fiction
High school dropouts---Fiction
Women caregivers---Fiction
Single mothers----Fiction
Families----Fiction
Authors, Canadian
Toronto (Ont.)---Fiction
FIC WIL
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