The Game of Giants
Ryan Woods
, Tanya Blake
, Lindsey Drake
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Benita Hartwell
, cassandra schiemann
, Brad MULLER
, Jude Castillo
, Mitchell Schmidt
, Janet Miller
, Marilyn Stanley
, Rodney Cross
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Beth Dekoker
, Dot Mann
, Martine Fabris
, Vaishnavi Shanoj
, Sandra Bales
, Stacey Shackel
, Kat Sommer-Derksen
, Val Ross
, Sharon Forzley
, Bronya Mazereeuw
, Sandra Lackie
, Chris Carvalho
, Rosa Cross
, Brittney Warren
, toni velthuis
, Joshua Lewis
, Cheryl Johnson
, Sandra Furlotte
, Susan Fitzgerald
, Sarah Schwartz
, Alanna Virtue
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Noelle Walsh
, Laura Patterson
, Natasha Andres
, Mary Therrien
, Megan Turner McMillan
, Isisus Western
, Paula Adam
, Agnes Marshall
, Ariane Béland
, Danielle Kat
, Isabella Rose
, Andrea Pole
, Barry Kazimer
, Shawna Moodie
, Cherryl Koylass
, Holly Elisabeth
, Maureen Brownlee
, Presley Robertson
, Ashley Duke
, Lynn Andrews
, Mike Broderick
, Dorothy Wong
, Jessica Casas
, Joseph Chirayil
, Anita Jones
, Kim Carswell
, Tori Levang
, Gabrielle Rancourt
, Diana Richardson
, Sara Conway
, Lisa Reynolds
, Patricia Johnson
, Reilly Robson
, Dru Edmiston
, Wendy Burleson
, Roland Schigas
, Margaret McKay
, Michelle Arsenault
, Kartik Gupta
, Diane McPherson
, BJ Underwood
, Pat Johnston
, Janice Cournoyer
, Emily Johansen
, diana kirkwood
, Alex Henderson
, Lynn Bechtel
, Penelope Penner
, Karyn Newton
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Kim Cappellina
, Heather Belliveau
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Chantal Comeau
, Tanis Anne
, Huguette Settle
, Pamela Humphrey
, Lindsey Andronak
, Mary Woods
, Katie Mac Macalister
, Tami Osato
, Jen Bailey
, Filomena Falocco
, Alice Meems
, Ken Gilmour
, Hailey Slaviero
, Randi Ann Doll
, Lisa Bilodeau
, Heather Norris
, Deanna Carney
, Katie Kah
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Meghan Barton
, Hannah Branham
, Andre Labonte
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Hoda Montazeri
, Meaghan Krygier
, Briana Paquette
, Janet Hosokawa
, Danielle MacKinlay
, Julie Hansen
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A novel about the unpredictability of parenthood, a journey into the unchartered territory that is having a child, especially when that child turns out to be different.
Rose Drury has just learned that her son, Roger, is below average—at the third-percentile rank, according to the pediatrician. Co-parenting with her partner, Lucy, in a 1980s Calgary only just starting to accept same-sex relationships, Rose works to unearth her own desires from the quagmire of directives from others, while she grapples with the implications of Roger's developmental delays.
Though Rose herself is a developmental psychologist and knows all of the "right" answers and "correct" things to do, she finds that she is all too human, struggling with the many social forces that converge on a mother of a kid who is different. With humour and desperation in equal measure, Rose reviews her life history for the definitive moment that could explain how she and her son got to this point.
In this sparkling and empathetic novel, Marion Douglas digs into a young mother's uncertainty, fear, and hard-won wisdom as she and her son—an odd and lovable giant of unpredictability—forge a path forward.
