{"product_id":"dirty-birdsbooks","title":"Dirty Birds","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e***IPPY: INDEPENDENT VOICE AWARD – WINNER***\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e***LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2021***\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e***APMA BEST ATLANTIC PUBLISHED BOOK AWARD: WINNER***\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e***STEPHEN LEACOCK MEADAL FOR HUMOUR: SHORTLIST***\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e***THOMAS RADDALL ATLANTIC FICTION AWARD: SHORTLIST***\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e***MARGARET AND JOHN SAVAGE FIRST BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION: SHORTLIST***\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e***FOREWORD INDIES HUMOUR AWARD: SILVER***\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e***THE GLOBE AND MAIL SUMMER'S HOTTEST READS***\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e***2021 RELIT AWARD: LONG SHORTLIST***\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn late 2008, as the world’s economy crumbles and Barack Obama ascends to the White House, the remarkably unremarkable Milton Ontario – not to be confused with Milton, Ontario – leaves his parents’ basement in Middle-of-Nowhere, Saskatchewan, and sets forth to find fame, fortune, and love in the Euro-lite electric sexuality of Montreal; to bask in the endless twenty-something Millennial adolescence of the Plateau; to escape the infinite flatness of Saskatchewan and find his messiah – Leonard Cohen. Hilariously ironic and irreverent, in Dirty Birds, Morgan Murray generates a quest novel for the twenty-first century—a coming-of-age, rom-com, crime-farce thriller—where a hero’s greatest foe is his own crippling mediocrity as he seeks purpose in art, money, power, crime, and sleeping in all day.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Murray, Morgan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":44189349642464,"sku":"","price":13.77,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_0cd687bb-cd71-40e6-a6a4-05e18ab856f7.jpg?v=1695151893","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/dirty-birdsbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}