Dwight Eliot was born on a baseball diamond, during a dugout-clearing brawl between his hometown team, The Seep Selects, and a team of barnstorming Cuban All Stars. Decades later, when he sees his childhood home being moved on a truck down the highway, he begins a quest to research the history of his hometown and of his family. Seep is being dismantled, and the land is being redeveloped as a master-planned recreational townsite to complement a nearby First Nations casino. And then his brother Darryl arrives on his doorstep with the force of a bus crash. In the face of the town's erasure, he tries to preserve its stories; so doing, he comes to question his own.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C813/.6
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781772140125 9781772140743
- LCCN
- PR9356.I43 PR9199.4.G55
- LCCN Item number
- S44 2015eb S44 2015eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (221 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00236599 (OCoLC)949857915 (CaOOCEL)476346
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Cover Page 1
- Title Page 4
- Copyright Page 5
- Dedication 6
- Once Upon a Time 8
- 0. “Amy’s” Prelude 10
- 1. All the Cars He Had Ever Owned 14
- 2. Amy Among the Earthmovers 22
- 3. Hot Shave 36
- 4. The Stars Reveal Themselves 52
- 5. Hello! My Name Is 56
- 6. I Always Find You 66
- 7. Shiplap 72
- 8. Risk Management 78
- 9. A Cubic Foot of Cherries 86
- 10. Turn Landscape into Asset 98
- 11. They Built a Deck 110
- 12. Laugh Jack 118
- 13. A Man Will Set Foot on the Moon 132
- 14. The Wild Mouse 140
- 15. The Crux of the Biscuit 166
- 16. The Wheel Spun 186
- 17. Picnic 194
- 18. Bolide 216
- 00. “Amy’s” Coda 218
- Acknowledgements 224
- About the Author 225
