“A Boy of Good Breeding”
by Miriam Toews
Published: April 2005
ISBN: 0676977197

(Updated: July 26, 2005.)

From the Publisher…

From the acclaimed Giller Prize Finalist and Governor General’s Award Winner: a delightfully funny and charming second novel about Canada’s smallest town.

Life in Winnipeg didn’t go as planned for Knute and her daughter. But living back in Algren with her parents and working for the longtime mayor, Hosea Funk, has its own challenges: Knute finds herself mixed up with Hosea’s attempts to achieve his dream of meeting the Prime Minister — even if that means keeping the town’s population at an even 1500. Bringing to life small-town Canada and all its larger-than-life characters, A Boy of Good Breeding is a big-hearted, hilarious novel about finding out where you belong.

Interesting idea but a little long in the telling… Aware that the reading of this book might be suffering from the order of my “list”, I give this book a two out of five hearts on my “couldn’t wait to get back to it” scale.