A Funny Kind of Paradise
By Jo Owens
By Jo Owens
By Jo Owens
By Jo Owens
By Jo Owens
Read by Maggie Huculak
By Jo Owens
Read by Maggie Huculak
Category: Women's Fiction | Literary Fiction
Category: Women's Fiction | Literary Fiction
Category: Women's Fiction | Literary Fiction | Audiobooks
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$16.95
Mar 09, 2021 | ISBN 9780735278820
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Mar 09, 2021 | ISBN 9780735278837
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Mar 09, 2021 | ISBN 9781039001442
490 Minutes
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Praise
“[An] affecting debut . . . Owens’s believable, touching portrait of Frannie and the loving care of her aides is loaded with moments of beauty amid the swirl of regret and nostalgia. . . . These powerful final reflections of an irascible, regretful patient illustrate the unremarkable yet profound experience of nearing death.” —Publishers Weekly
“Owens, a care aide for more than 20 years, captures the skill and tenderness of caring for someone at the end of life in direct and unvarnished prose. . . . Each [care aide] . . . is richly drawn and complex . . . [and the novel] serves to illuminate a vital profession that has been rarely documented in fiction.” —Vancouver Sun
“Like pulling rabbits from a hat, Jo Owens manages the magic of reaching into the most abject places of the human heart—and other parts of the anatomy—and finding joy, humour and redemption. She gifts the reader a story told with elegant wit and irreverent humour, and characters brought to life with love, often of the tough variety . . . and there is nothing more tender. I love this book.” —Ann-Marie MacDonald
“Jo Owens’ achievement is astonishing. She has created a heroine whose zest for life is as unstoppable as her curiosity about the caregivers and patients in her long-term facility, and whose capacity for change is sometimes painful and frequently funny. What a delight to be privy to Francesca’s blunt, ribald, exasperated and tender reactions to a life she never planned.” —Katherine Ashenburg, author of Sofie & Cecilia and Her Turn
“A Funny Kind of Paradise is a gorgeous and original novel that explores a reality too often looked away from. A deeply compassionate examination of human life and its immeasurable value.” —Kevin Patterson, author of News From the Red Desert
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