Some Maintenance Required

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By Marie-Renee Lavoie

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Set in 1993, Some Maintenance Required follows Laurie in her final year of school as she navigates the brink of adulthood. Working part time and caring for her outspoken young neighbour Cindy, Laurie juggles dreams inspired by her love of books with the realities of her working-class life. Her father's garage where she struggles to keep her car running becomes a backdrop for a tender romance that deepens her awareness of social divides and complexity. Through humour and heart, Laurie learns about responsibility, growth, and the universal need for care and maintenance in life.
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Ideal for readers who enjoy tender coming-of-age stories with strong character development and social themes. Fans of heartfelt, witty general fiction and novels that explore class, family, and personal growth will find this appealing.

From the bestselling author of Autopsy of a Boring Wife, a tender coming-of-age story.

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Bestselling author of Autopsy of a Boring Wife, Marie-Renee Lavoie is a master of making us fall in love with her characters. She does it again with the tender coming-of-age story Some Maintenance Required.

It is 1993, the last year of school and Laurie's final spring before adulthood. She works part-time at a restaurant and looks after Cindy, her neglected, potty-mouthed little neighbour. Like her mother, Laurie devours books and dreams big.

Her father works at a garage, where Laurie constantly struggles to keep her car running. It is here that a budding romance intensifies Laurie's understanding of class differences and opens her eyes to a more complicated world.

With her big heart, she takes Cindy globe-trotting without even leaving town and learns how to come to terms with circumstances beyond her control. Life teaches Laurie that everyone requires some maintenance sometimes.

A story of taking responsibility and coming into adulthood, Some Maintenance Required is as funny and as impressive as its main character.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781487007737

Publisher: House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 August 2022

Country: Canada

Imprint: House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

Translated by Arielle Aaronson

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 133.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 254g

Pages: 208

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Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Marie-Renee Lavoie

About the Author

MARIE-RENE LAVOIE was born in 1974 in Limoilou, near Quebec City. She is the author of four novels, including Mister Roger and Me, which won ICI Radio-Canada's "Battle of the Books" - the Quebec equivalent of "Canada Reads" - and the Archambault Prize; Autopsy of a Boring Wife, which was a finalist for the Forest of Reading Evergreen Award, a Hoopla Book Club selection, and a CBC Best Books of the Year, and is currently being developed for television; and A Boring Wife Settles the Score. She lives in Limoilou.

ARIELLE AARONSON left her native New Jersey in 2007 to pursue a diploma in Translation Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. She holds an M.A. in Second Language Education from McGill University and has spent the past few years teaching English in the Montreal public school system and creating educational material for second language learners. She previously translated Marie-Renee Lavoie's Autopsy of a Boring Wife and A Boring Wife Settles the Score for Arachnide.