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list price: $22.99
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
category: Fiction
published: Jul 2022
ISBN:9781487007737
publisher: House of Anansi Press Inc
imprint: Arachnide Editions

Some Maintenance Required

by Marie-Renee Lavoie, translated by Arielle Aaronson

tagged: coming of age, contemporary women, humorous
Description

Bestselling author of Autopsy of a Boring Wife Marie-Renée Lavoie is a master of making us fall in love with her characters. She does it again with the tender coming-of-age story Some Maintenance Required.

It is 1993, the last year of school and Laurie’s final spring before adulthood. She works part time at a restaurant and looks after Cindy, her neglected, potty-mouthed little neighbour. Like her mother, Laurie devours books and dreams big. Her father works at a garage, where Laurie constantly struggles to keep her car running. It is here that a budding romance intensifies Laurie’s understanding of class differences, and opens her eyes to a more complicated world. With her big heart, she takes Cindy globe-trotting without even leaving town, and learns how to come to terms with circumstances beyond her control. Life teaches Laurie that everyone requires some maintenance sometimes. A story of taking responsibility and coming into adulthood, Some Maintenance Required is as funny and as impressive as its main character.

About the Authors

Marie-Renee Lavoie


Arielle Aaronson is a French-to-English translator of novels, films, and more. Her translation of Marie-Renée Lavoie’s Autopsy of a Boring Wife was longlisted for the 2021 Canada Reads book of the year. Arielle lives in Montreal, Quebec with her family.

Editorial Review

Lively and authentic.

— Winnipeg Free Press

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