Stunt Claudia Dey by Claudia Dey 9781770562202, 1770562206 instant download after payment.

Eugenia is nine years old, a synaesthesiac & a tightrope walker. She adores her father & his lunatic charms; she loves that he takes her fishing in the middle of the night & calls her Stunt. Sheb has always promised he’ll one day take her to the moonscape of northern Ontario, where astronauts train; instead he writes a note, blows up a shoulder-pad factory, & leaves. His heartbroken daughter is left behind with her mother, the sharp-edged former ingenue Mink, & her sister, the death-obsessed & hauntingly beautiful Immaculata. 

After a fake funeral for Sheb, Mink vanishes too. Eugenia & Immaculata, left alone, double in age overnight. Immaculata becomes a swan-like giantess, & soon finds her calling caring for Leopold, a diseased & irresistible malcontent down the street. Eugenia, however, stays the same: dark and diminutive, & bereft. She finds herself a bicycle & sets off to track down her father, encountering an astronaut & a waitress named Cupid along the way.

Stunt is the first novel by one of Canada’s most acclaimed playwrights. Like synaesthetic Eugenia, your senses will be addled as Dey’s words take on colours, tastes, & smells, somehow coming to mean more than you thought they did; they depict, with compassionate hilarity & luminous heartbreak, the love between a girl & her father.

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Claudia Dey’s most recent novel, Heartbreaker, was a Northern Lit & Trillium Book Award finalist. It was named a best book of the year by multiple publications & is being adapted for television. Her plays have been produced internationally & nominated for the Governor General’s, Dora Mavor Moore, & Trillium Book Awards. Dey has worked as a film actress, a guest artist at the National Theatre School, & an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto