A comic, magic realist take on the October Crisis of 1970, the novel won the 2004 Books in Canada First Novel Award, and was shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Novel.
The novel, which presents a humorous, magical realist perspective on the October Crisis of 1970, won the 2004 Books in Canada First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Novel.