Reeds

By (author): Arjun Basu

The Reeds are a very loving, slightly dysfunctional family — but a summer of individual changes is about to shake their tight family unit. Bobby, the father, loses his executive job while his wife Mimi’s lucrative home-run business leaps ahead. Their adopted son, Abbie, leverages his internet stardom into the makings of a career, while their adopted daughter, Dee, discovers who she really is. They’ll have to navigate the shifting landscapes of commerce and fame in the age of the internet, office politics, gender dynamics, and sexuality in a world that has just seen Brexit, Trump, and heightened climate anxiety. Set in Montreal’s west end, The Reeds is about family, love, and nostalgia while exploring the dehumanization of work and the power of art against a backdrop of mid-century modern furniture, shag carpeting, the relentlessness of change, gentrification, and Korean fried chicken. In many ways, The Reeds is an optimistic story about the middle class, its hopes, ambitions, and challenges.

AUTHOR

Arjun Basu

Arjun Basu was born and bred in Montreal. He was editor in chief of enRoute between 2001 and 2007. He continues to live in Montreal, with his wife and son, and his life is as squishy as anyone else’s.

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“The Reedsis sharp wildly hilarious touching and profound I sank into the thick shag of the characters their isolation and anxieties their moments that made me wince and I never wanted to leave Maybe art cant be perfect but Arjun Basu comes as close as it gets Chris Harding Thorntonauthor of Pickard County Atlas”

“Such a generous bighearted book The world is a wondrous and just place Basu writes so rareto read a portrait of a contemporaryfamily that is this grownup attentive and full of love as if Ted Lasso went back to school for a PhD in American lit Sean Michaels Giller Prizewinning author ofUs ConductorsandDo You Remember Being Born”

“The Reeds is ambitious intimate and wise a surprisingly beautiful and ultimately optimistic story about deeply flawed authentic humans Arjun Basu is one of the very best writers working today Timothy Taylor author ofStanley ParkandThe Rise and Fall of Magic Wolf”

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Details

Dimensions:

360 Pages
8.5in * 5.5in * 0.814in

Published:

October 15, 2024

City of Publication:

Toronto

Country of Publication:

CA

Publisher:

ECW Press

ISBN:

9781770417434

Book Subjects:

FICTION / Literary

Language:

eng

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