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Author:

Williams, Ian, 1979- author.

Title:

Reproduction / Ian Williams.

Publisher:

Europa Editions,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

566 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

Single-parent families--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
High school dropouts--Fiction.
Women caregivers--Fiction.
Single mothers--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Toronto (Ont.)--Fiction.
Families.
High school dropouts.
Interpersonal relations.
Man-woman relationships.
Single mothers.
Single-parent families.
Women caregivers.
Ontario--Toronto.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Domestic fiction.

Notes:

First published in 2019 by Penguin Random House Canada. Includes bibliographical references and discography.

Summary:

"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."--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1609455754
9781609455750

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1104046616

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

TKPE492 -- Maquoketa Public Library (Maquoketa)