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Arty Wall is crumbling. Like a city on the verge of collapse, his life has become a fragmented and chaotic mess, destined for ruin. He can barely hang onto his job as an urban planner in Toronto. Though his city is thriving, he is failing. He's broke and overweight, addicted to food and slot machines. Arty no longer recognizes himself, his family, or his home. And like many hapless urbanites, he blames the city for his lot in life. As the city...

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On the day her dad is buried, the woman who calls herself Winnie celebrates by setting out on the strangest road trip of her life. Her traveling companion is an enormous man-child whom she calls Tongue. Their vehicle: the beat-up limousine left to her by a dying man seeking forgiveness. Too little, too late. Searching for her lost mother and the son whom she believes was taken from her at birth, Winnie must confront her buried past, while batt...

This is an ecstatic journey through the seamy underbelly of a fading, unnamed town populated with seemingly hollow, anonymous souls. Taking place over the span of one night, this series of linked poems gives us glimpses into the lives of unlikely urban saints on their individual quests for personal humanity and spiritual redemption. Marred by loneliness, violence and desire, Labriola's world, at once lyrical and cinematic, occupies that irresi...