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Some Maintenance Required by Marie-Rene Lavoie, translated by Arielle Aaronson

Award-winning author Marie-Rene Lavoie's new novel is a coming-of-age story about taking responsibility and transitioning into adulthood.

A coming-of-age story about taking responsibility and transitioning into adulthood

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.(From House of Anansi Press)

Marie-Rene Lavoieis a Canadian writer from Quebec. She's the author of three other books, includingA Boring Wife Settles the Score, Autopsy of a Boring WifeandMister Roger and Me(La petite et le vieuxin French), which won Radio-Canada'sLes combat des livresin 2012.

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