A note about Amazon.ca
Canadian buyers are advised to avoid Amazon.ca. My latest book, They don't make STUDEBAKERS anymore is drastically over-priced on that site. Hollywood Parade is correctly priced, but says it is temporarily out of stock. You can still purchase that one, despite what they say, but it will take some time to arrive. If you can, you might consider Indigo or an indie bookstore. An in-person order might take a bit of time if it is not in stock, but picking it up in the store will not include any shipping costs. An on-line order above a certain price threshold through Indigo will include free shipping.
Hollywood parade
Four Houses. A dozen people.
All behind one ostentatious façade.
The inhabitants of the Hollywood Parade range in age from an infant to a pair of nonagenarians, and from the wealthy to welfare recipients. The actions of each affect the others as they try to navigate the various connections, resulting in breakups and new relationships, a murder, and an attempted murder. The old building itself also plays a role, as things that break or wear out forcing people to come together or rethink their priorities.
Here's to Joe
Scott is an artist struggling with his art and his identity. In an attempt to rediscover himself, he rents an old seaside house in Nova Scotia for the summer so he can paint seascapes away from the hustle of his life in Toronto. It seems like he might get the vacation he sorely needs, but life has other ideas.
He begins to develop a friendship with Emily, the local bar-owner, but a chance encounter with an old man and the mysterious journal he finds, send Scott down an unexpected road, one full of secrets where a mystery is demanding to be solved.
They Don't Make Studebakers Anymore
I was born on the hood of a Studebaker . . .
So begins the story of Boy, coming of age in a small town in the 1960s. From trying to understand the Cold War, to first kisses, and the moon landing, he struggles to make sense of his world. Was he really born in outer space? What exactly does one do when The Bomb lands in your backyard? And what precisely is supposed to happen on the front porch after your first slow dance with a girl?
With his exceptional memory and keen observation skills, he chronicles the indignities of growing up—often with hilarious results—all while trying to assert some independence, and support his mother through her struggles to keep the family going.
But as childhood makes way for adolescence and mystery gives way to mastery, a car that looks an awful lot like the long-lost Studebaker turns everything on its head.