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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Shelstad, Sam, 1983-     Subjects     Call centers -- Fiction.     Widows -- Fiction.     Cults -- Fiction.     Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence.     Toronto (Ont.) -- Fiction.     Niagara Falls (Ont.) -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Shelstad, Sam, 1983-       by title:      Citizens of light : ...       by call number:      FICTION SHE     Search the Web     Shelstad, Sam, 1983-     Call centers -- Fiction.     Widows -- Fiction.     Cults -- Fiction.     Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence.     Toronto (Ont.) -- Fiction.     Niagara Falls (Ont.) -- Fiction.       MARC Display

Citizens of light : a novel / Sam Shelstad. by Shelstad, Sam, 1983- Brindle & Glass, 2022. Call #: FICTION SHE Subjects Call centers -- Fiction.   Widows -- Fiction.   Cults -- Fiction.   Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence.   Toronto (Ont.) -- Fiction.   Niagara Falls (Ont.) -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781990071058 (trade pbk.) Description:  228 p. ; 21 cm. Summary:  "Colleen Weagle works in a call centre and lives in a bungalow with her mother in a quiet Toronto suburb. In her spare time she writes spec scripts for a CBC riding-school drama (her mother's favourite) and plays an online game set in a resort populated by reindeer. It's a typical life. Except three months ago Colleen's husband Leonard, who led a similarly monotonous life, was found in a bog in the middle of the night, a two hours' drive from home. Dead. With a flatly optimistic belief in the power of routine, Colleen has been soldiering on, trying not to think too hard about all the unknowns surrounding the death. But when a local news photo twigs Colleen's memory of a mystery attendee at Leonard's funeral she snaps into action. In the maddening company of her ornery co-worker Patti, she heads to Niagara Falls on a quest to find the truth behind the death. Amid the slot machines and grubby hotels, the pair stumble into the darker underworld of a faded tourist trap. What they find will lead straight to an episode from Colleen's adolescence she thought she'd put firmly behind her. Bleakly madcap, with deadpan dialogue, Shelstad's debut novel is a noir anti-thriller reminiscent of Twin Peaks and the work of Ottessa Moshfegh and early Kate Atkinson. He captures call-centre life, ramshackle tourist attractions, and suburbia with wit and sharp realism, and reveals the undercurrents of melancholy and the truly bizarre that can run beneath even the most seemingly mild-mannered lives."--Provided by publisher. Awards:  Winner of the Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence for Best First Crime Novel (previously known as the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel), 2023. Genre:  Canadian fiction. First novel Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Fiction FICTION SHE Adult Trade Paperback Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList J. D. Shatford Memorial Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION SHE Adult Trade Paperback Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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