Coq
Penny Gilman
, Jude Castillo
, Deana Bueley
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Paris Semansky
, Mathew Webb
, Sandra Furlotte
, Joshua Lewis
, Andrea Pole
, Noelle Walsh
, Marilyn Stanley
, Shannon Holmes
, Barry Kazimer
, Ed Gilman
, Paula Adam
, LJ Law
, Sarah Schwartz
, Joe Mitchell
, Claire Gear
, Cassandra Schiemann
, Tyler Webb
, Andy Holmes
, Thelma Ball
, Natasa Ilic
, Julie Kaniak
, Dora Dueck
, Lauren Seal
, Jennifer Beyak
, Shayla Bradley
, Sarah Van Dyk
, Dani Kat
, Mary Therrien
, Courtney White
, Agnes Marshall
, Trish Bowering
, Andrea Gillespie
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Lori Cameron
, Deb Philippon
, Jennifer Morse
, Kathleen Mary Kilmer
, Kenzie Woitowicz
, Jilanna Eagles
, Brenda Vaccarello
, Hoda Montazeri
, Linda Leitch
, Susan Toy
, Patricia Johnson
, Ariane Béland
, Vicki Bedford
, Ellen Clarke
, Emma Way
, Dawn Macdonald
, Susan Grieshaber-Otto
, Shelley Gibbs
, Lisa Ostrowski
, Sharon Bird
, Crystal Inwood
, Jill Rothwell
, Remi Gunn
, Jocelyn Heisel
, P. Thompson
, Ken Gilmour
, Heather Rose
, Paula Ritchie
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Heather Belliveau
, Christine Lion
, Rachel Lutz
, Mary Danieli
, Huguette Lemieux
, joy mills
, Diana Richardson
, Susan Fitzgerald
, Lynn Hallson
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Darlene Foster
, Benita Hartwell
, Audrey Joyal
, Maria Mclean
, Denise Duvall
, Rosa Cross
, Janet Meisner
, Rodney Cross
, Mary Campbell
, Donald Forsythe
, Catherine Westerberg
, Patricia McKeown
, Katherine Koller
, ilona storie
, Kate Kostandoff
, Kim Fenton
, Margaret McKay
, Maureen Brownlee
, Deborah Kennedy
, Andrea Mack
, Carol Parchewsky
, Lynn Peppas
, Ron Thompson
, Leslie Vermeer
, Sandra Dufoe
, jane luce
, Pam Keetch
, Kim Cappellina
, Robin Leighton
, Jessica Gilbert
, diana kirkwood
, Dielle MacArthur
, Lynn Bechtel
, Alice Meems
, Janice Cournoyer
, Lisa Mallia
, Stacy Stafford
, Karen Kendrick
, Melissa Kohlman
, C. Ray
, Karen Nordrum
, Catherine Young
, Debra Fisher
, Laura Frey
, Lucian Childs
, Karen Bass
, E. Ainslie
, Debbie Youngman
, Melissa Poremba
, Reilly Robson
, Adrienne Stevenson
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Elaine Baptie
, Melanie Solar
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From Leacock finalist Ali Bryan, a witty and immensely fun dramedy about a family's memorial trip to the City of Love, where chaos ensues at every turn.
It's been ten years since Claudia's mother died after a tragic collision with a banana boat. Her kids are now teenagers, her brother's wife has left him, and her ex has had a spiritual awakening that has him hinting at reconciliation -- all things she can handle.
But when her septuagenarian father decides to remarry after a brief courtship with a woman who is decidedly different than their mother, the entire family is thrown off course, and plans a long overdue memorial trip to the only place their mother ever dreamed of going: Paris. However, minutes after take-off, the trip takes an unpredictable turn and sets off a chain of events that threatens to derail the closure the family desperately seeks.
Chance meetings, poolside confessions, run-ins with mimes, climate protests, and a man with a death wish force Claudia to reconsider everything she thought she knew about love, both the familial and the romantic, the tragic and the sublime. How well do we really know those closest to us? And how well do we really know ourselves?
In this follow-up to her award-winning novel Roost, Ali Bryan explores thorny family dynamics with her trademark offbeat humour and insight. Coq is a darkly comedic contemporary family drama that explores grief, identity, and second chances in the one-and-only City of Love.
