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Published : Saturday 5 February 2005
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At a dinner party, Beth -- thirty-six, single, and working as much overtime as she can get her hands on -- impulsively announces that shes going to spend a night on Vancouvers mean streets in commiseration of the homeless. Unexpectedly, her hosts son Mason -- nine years old, small for his age, intense, intellectual and so shy he cant speak in company -- whispers in his mothers ear that he wants to go with her. Masons parents, good limousine liberals that they are, reluctantly allow him to go. Disaster, of course, ensues.So begins this fast-paced, tightly wound, funny and quirky first novel from a fresh new voice in Canadian fiction. Follow Beth, well-meaning but ultimately misguided, through one night on the streets as she frantically searches for the boy she has lost, ruminates on the shopping cart as a status symbol, loses her shoes, meets a writer, knocks herself out cold, discovers romaine lettuce as a hair accessory, and maybe -- just maybe -- falls in love after all.
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