Three generations of women strive for real freedom in this startling, provocative novel exploring sexuality, gender, and maternal ambivalence, from the acclaimed author of The Best Kind of People .
She is also a Canadian Screen Award-winning TV and film writer, with credits on the Baroness von Sketch Show, Schitt\'s Creek, Degrassi, and others..
She has published three collections of poetry: The Best Ten Minutes of Your Life, Precordial Thump, and The Emily Valentine Poems.
About author(s): Zoe Whittall is the author of three previous novels, including the Giller-shortlisted The Best Kind of People, the Lambda-winning Holding Still for As Long As Possible, and her debut, Bottle Rocket Hearts.
Definitions of family, romance, gender, and love will radically change as they seek out lives that are nothing less than spectacular.
In this sharply observed novel, Zoe Whittall captures three very different women who each struggle to build an authentic life.
But when her granddaughter, Missy, winds up crashing at her house, she decides it\'s time that the strong and stubborn women in her family find a way to understand one another again.
Ruth is eighty-three and planning her return to the Turkish seaside village where she spent her childhood.
Fortysomething Carola is just surfacing from a sex scandal at the yoga center where she has been living when she sees her daughter, Missy, for the first time in ten years--on the cover of a music magazine.
But then she meets a tomboy drummer who is hard to forget, and a forgotten flap of cocaine strands her at the border.
As the only girl in the band, she\'s determined to party just as hard as everyone else, loving and leaving a guy in every town.
At twentytwo years old, she gets on stage every night and plays the song about her absent mother that made the band famous.
A fascinating stunner of a novel, The Spectacular is exactly that: spectacular!"--Kristen Arnett, author of With Teeth It\'s 1997 and Missy is a cellist in an indie rock band on tour across America. "Whittall addresses motherhood and autonomy in ways I\'ve never seen done before.
Three generations of women strive for real freedom in this startling, provocative novel exploring sexuality, gender, and maternal ambivalence, from the acclaimed author of The Best Kind of People
