Winner of Northern Lit Award
Finalist for the Leacock Medal for Humour
Quill & Quire "Books of the Year 2016"
Globe & Mail "Best Canadian Fiction of 2016"
A Penguin Book Club Pick
A woman goes over a waterfall, a video goes viral, a family goes into
meltdown--life is about to get a lot more complicated for the Parker
family.
Like all families, the Parkers of Thunder Bay have had their share of
complications. But when matriarch Kate Parker miraculously survives
plummeting over a waterfall in a barrel--a feat captured on a video that
goes viral--it's Kate's family who tumbles into chaos under the
spotlight. Her prodigal daughter returns to town. Her 16-year-old
granddaughter gets caught up in an online relationship with a man she
has never met. Her husband sifts through their marriage to search for
what sent his wife over the falls. Her adopted son fears losing the only
family he's ever known. Then there is Kate, who once made a
life-changing choice and now fears her advancing dementia will rob her
of memories from when she was most herself. Set over the course of four
calamitous days, Amy Jones's big-hearted first novel follows the
Parkers' misadventures as catastrophe forces them to do something they
never thought possible--act like a family.
