#Afloat mac series

Her novel, The Strange Truth About Us вЂ“ A Novel of Absence, was chosen by The Globe & Mail as a Best Book of 2012. Her memoir, My Turquoise Years, which she adapted for the stage, premiered in 2013 at the Arts Club TheatreвЂ™s Granville Island Stage in Vancouver, British Columbia. Farrant is the author of fourteen works of fiction, non-fiction, memoir, and over one hundred book reviews and essays for the Vancouver Sun and the Toronto Globe & Mail. As each miniatureвЂќ reads stranger (and truer) than the one before, Farrant manages to coax her readers from their well-worn, earthbound narratives and into a world afloat on satire, absurdity, and, in her most brilliant moments, expansive joy. Sexuality and depravity, childhood and bad parenting, and love and divorce are all deftly handled in this hot flash of a book that goes straight to the heart of things. What happens when a whimsical spirit becomes captive to a middle-aged body? At the end of a Love Your Package workshop, what does the wrap-up dinner look like? Can a soggy tomato salad really end someoneвЂ™s marriage? Brimming with pathos and bathos in equal measure, FarrantвЂ™s smart prose offers escape and renewal from the monotony of modern life, while at the same time poking fun at her readersвЂ™ pathological devotion to the technology and interpersonal relationships that leave them feeling bored and empty. Inside the linoleum-lined kitchens and lace-trimmed living rooms that drift through these stories, Farrant interrupts the daily routines doctorвЂ™s appointments, gardening, mealtimes of her eccentric yet familiar characters with intensely surreal, laugh-out-loud moments. Farrant peers into the complexities of human experience through the rear window.

#Afloat mac series

In The World Afloat, a series of seventy-five miniaturesвЂќ that melds narrative with elements of prose poem and farce, master of the absurd and expert observer M.A.C.