Nominated for the Governor General’s Award, the Trillium Award, and the Chapters/Books In Canada First Novel Award. National Bestseller.
Adrift in Toronto’s gossipy, grant-driven cultural scene, a coterie of overeducated, underemployed young people stab at vaguely artistic projects and scramble after the opportunities that seem tantalizingly within reach — if you know the right people. Searching for work, sex and big-city life is Ted Owen, who quickly finds himself swept into the complicated lives of the young and the jaded, people who thrive in a strange world of hip fashion and surreal night-clubs.
“A sharply observed, sour, sweet, and very funny first novel… Not so many could have matched … the inventiveness of the dialogue, the grace of the narrative, and the tenderness that Smith shows toward the most vulnerable characters he has created.” — Books in Canada