{"product_id":"dirty-birds-9781550818079","title":"Dirty Birds","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e***IPPY: INDEPENDENT VOICE AWARD - WINNER***\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e***LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2021***\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e***APMA BEST ATLANTIC PUBLISHED BOOK AWARD: WINNER***\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 RADDALL ATLANTIC FICTION AWARD: SHORTLIST***\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e***MARGARET AND JOHN SAVAGE FIRST BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION: SHORTLIST***\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e***FOREWORD INDIES HUMOUR AWARD: SILVER***\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e***THE GLOBE AND MAIL SUMMER'S HOTTEST 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMurray, Morgan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Morgan Murray was born and raised on a farm near the same west-central Alberta village as figure-skating legend Kurt Browning (Caroline). He now lives, works, plays, writes, and builds all sorts of crooked furniture in Cape Breton. In between, he has been a professional schemer, a farmer, a rancher, a roustabout, a secretary, a reporter, a designer, a Tweeter, and a student in St. John's, Calgary, Prague, Montreal, Chicoutimi, and Paris. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Canadian Studies from the University of Calgary, a Certificate in Central and Eastern European Studies from the University of Economics, Prague, a Master of Philosophy in Humanities from Memorial University of Newfoundland, and a participation ribbon for beef-calf showmanship (incomplete) from the Little Britches 4-H Club.","brand":"Breakwater Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51749312069906,"sku":"9781550818079","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ea3c7929-e27f-4243-8ff4-060495cf018e.jpg?v=1764076610","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dirty-birds-9781550818079","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}