In the City of Pigs
Marilyn Stanley
, Cassandra Schiemann
, Laurie Burns
, Jude Castillo
, Keanan Byggdin
, Julie Kaniak
, Stef Novakowski
, Andrea Pole
, Linda Dessau
, Teree Hokanson
, Chris Carvalho
, Jilanna Eagles
, Hoda Montazeri
, Mary Therrien
, Noelle Walsh
, Monica Geerts
, Remi Gunn
, Dawn Macdonald
, Deana Bueley
, Richard Scarsbrook
, Dani Kat
, Barry Kazimer
, Beth Follett
, Sarah Schwartz
, Sandra Perry
, Sahhara Leckie
, Brenda Vaccarello
, Jessica Waite
, Janet Baron
, Linda Leitch
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Megan Bishop
, Crystal Inwood
, Maureen Brownlee
, Vanessa Charbonneau-Dinelle
, KERRILYNN SWEENEY
, Deb Philippon
, P. Thompson
, Joe Mitchell
, Melissa Poremba
, Cindy Matthews
, Yolande Thivierge
, Thelma Ball
, Alice Meems
, Nicki D'Angelo
, Wanda Brine
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Melissa Kohlman
, Natasa Ilic
, Samantha Fitzpatrick
, Margaret McKay
, Alex Henderson
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Kim Cappellina
, Rachel Edmonds
, Lynn Andrews
, Rhona Brinkman
, John Bell
, Ron Thompson
, Joanne Epp
, Heather Sibley
, Filomena Falocco
, Christine Lion
, Marin Beck
, Kathryn Galan
, Ken Gilmour
, Dawn Clayden
, Charles Leblanc
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Lori Watson
, Siobhan Monaghan
, Heather Belliveau
, Paula Ritchie
, Astrid Egger
, Huguette Lemieux
, Benita Hartwell
, Fin Macdonald
, Margaret Jones
, Randi Ann Doll
, Elaine Baptie
, Kevin Smith
, Janice Cournoyer
, Robert Hykawy
, Lynn Bechtel
, C. Ray
, Denise Duvall
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Penelope Penner
, Jennifer Beyak
, Joann Horgan
, Alissa Bender
, Debbie Rodgers
, Jasmeet Gill
, Chris Lantz
, Christopher Rossignol
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Alexander Otkazov is finished with Montreal. Having wasted his youth on the love of art, he’s ready for a life of anonymous condo towers and profitable boredom. But when he moves to Toronto, he is forced into a monkish existence by the unforgiving pressures of the city — until he stumbles across a story about an ambitious experimental music collective that could be his ticket to a better job and a better life.
Desperate to prove himself as a journalist, Alexander chases answers that take him from Forest Hill mansions to the bottom of Halifax Harbour, moving ever deeper into a shadowy world of amorphous real estate deals, creative megalomania, and finance capitalism, where avant-garde art is simply another mask for big money. In order to unravel the threads tying everything he loves to everything he hates, he will have to confront his own most sordid desires and the lengths he is willing to go to achieve his dreams of an easy life.
