Well, I knew I was going to end up picking this book at some point, so it might as well be now: Glen Dresser's Correction Road (Oberon Press, 2007).
I'll put it in the Can-Lit category for now. Shortlisted for the City of Calgary book prize and longlisted for the national ReLit Award. A story set 1979 around the Alberta Rat Patrol, following the lives of three people living in a small town on the Alberta/Saskatchewan border: an officer on the rat patrol, his girlfriend - a liquor store employee, and the alcoholic curator of the small town museum. Through complex narrative devices, the book explores themes of alienation, separation, and studies the idea of place through layers of geological, social, or personal history. The rat patrol is used as a way of exploring political alienation (and the futility of such sentiments), a theme that's linked back to the level of personal relationships. And it has a reference to Willi Plett. If I was going to write a book, this would be the book that I'd write. And infact, I did write this book.
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