{"product_id":"books-dirty-birds-by-morgan-murray","title":"Dirty Birds","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e***LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2021***\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e***APMA BEST ATLANTIC PUBLISHED BOK AWARD: WINER***\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e***STEPHEN LEACOCK MEADAL FOR HUMOUR: SHORTLIST***\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e***THOMAS RADAL ATLANTIC FICTION AWARD: SHORTLIST***\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e***MARGARET AND JOHN SAVAGE FIRST BOK AWARD FOR FICTION: SHORTLIST***\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e***FOREWORD INDIES HUMOUR AWARD FINALIST***\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e***THE GLOBE AND MAIL SUMER'S HOTEST READS***\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e***2021 RELIT AWARD: LONG SHORTLIST***\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \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":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53507293217041,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781550818079.jpg?v=1778123276","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-dirty-birds-by-morgan-murray","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}