Some Maintenance Required

Some Maintenance Required
Marie-Renee Lavoie, Arielle Aaronson
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Paperback
h203 x 133mm - 208pg
18 Aug 2022 CAN
International import eta 7-19 days
9781487007737
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Bestselling author of Autopsy of a Boring Wife Marie-Renee Lavoie is a master of making us fall in love with her characters. She does it again with the tender coming-of-age story Some Maintenance Required. It is 1993, the last year of school and Laurie' s final spring before adulthood. She works part time at a restaurant and looks after Cindy, her neglected, potty-mouthed little neighbour. Like her mother, Laurie devours books and dreams big. Her father works at a garage, where Laurie constantly struggles to keep her car running. It is here that a budding romance intensifies Laurie' s understanding of class differences, and opens her eyes to a more complicated world. With her big heart, she takes Cindy globe-trotting without even leaving town, and learns how to come to terms with circumstances beyond her control. Life teaches Laurie that everyone requires some maintenance sometimes. A story of taking responsibility and coming into adulthood, Some Maintenance Required is as funny and as impressive as its main character.
Lively and authentic. * Winnipeg Free Press *
MARIE-RENEE LAVOIE was born in 1974 in Limoilou, near Quebec City. She is the author of four novels, including Mister Roger and Me, which won ICI Radio-Canada' s "Battle of the Books" - the Quebec equivalent of "Canada Reads" - and the Archambault Prize; Autopsy of a Boring Wife, which was a finalist for the Forest of Reading Evergreen Award, a Hoopla Book Club selection, and a CBC Best Books of the Year, and is currently being developed for television; and A Boring Wife Settles the Score. She lives in Limoilou. ARIELLE AARONSON left her native New Jersey in 2007 to pursue a diploma in Translation Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. She holds an M. A. in Second Language Education from McGill University and has spent the past few years teaching English in the Montreal public school system and creating educational material for second language learners. She previously translated Marie-Renee Lavoie' s Autopsy of a Boring Wife and A Boring Wife Settles the Score for Arachnide.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781487007737
Published: 18 Aug 2022
Published In: Canada
Imprint: House of Anansi Press, Canada
Publisher: House of Anansi Press, Canada
Format: Paperback
Height: 203mm
Width: 133mm
Weight: 254g
Pages: 208

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