Audiolibro Art of Burglary, The

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

PRAISE FOR "THE ART OF BURGLARY"

Joan Baril creates believable characters. They laugh and love and plot and scheme, like your neighbours. This is literary fun. Highly recommended. ~ Michael Sobota, Journalist and culture critic

Undeniably, Joan Baril is a damn good storyteller. ~Sue Blott, author

ABOUT THIS BOOK:

Janet Marsden is a resourceful girl with insatiable curiosity and a propensity for bending the rules. With a policeman for a father and a mother with the 'Gift,' her life in Thunder Bay is definitely not boring. But she and her friends discover that bending the rules can come with unwelcome surprises when they embark on a series of burglaries to snoop on neighbours. As she becomes a woman, Janet embraces her futureand yet the past follows her, unstable as a cloud, twisted as a labyrinth.

Full of humour and heartbreak, Janet's stories are intimate coming-of-age vignettes about love, secrets, and social injustice. This collection will strike a chord with readers everywhere, and they'll want to share it with their friends.

AUTHOR JOAN BARIL, a native of Thunder Bay, Ontario, is a short story writer with ninety pieces published mainly in Canadian literary magazines. She has won many awards for her stories and was nominated for the Journey Prize by The Antigonish Review. She has lead an active literary life including a long running blog, Literary Thunder Bay, and several newspaper columns, including "The Northern Gardener". The Northwestern Ontario Writer's Workshop awarded her the Khoui Award for "Outstanding contribution to the literature of Northwestern Ontario." The federal government awarded her with a citation for her columns on immigrant issues.

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