Reproduction - Ian Williams
Category: Novel
Narrator: Andrew Shaw
Tags: Novel, General Fiction, Adults, Literature
A hilarious, surprising, and poignant love story about the way families are invented, told with the savvy of a Zadie Smith and with an inventiveness all Ian Williams own, Reproduction bangs lives together in a polyglot suburb of Toronto., Felicia and Edgar meet as their mothers are dying. Felicia, a teen from an island nation, and Edgar, the lazy heir of a wealthy German family, come together only because their mothers share a hospital room. When Felicias mother dies and Edgars Mutter does not, Felicia drops out of high school and takes a job as Mutters caregiver. While Felicia and Edgar dont quite understand each other, and Felicia recognizes that Edgar is selfish, arrogant, and often unkind, they form a bond built on grief (and proximity) that results in the birth of a son Felicia calls Armistice. Or Army, for short., Some years later, Felicia and Army (now 14) are living in the basement of a home owned by Oliver, a divorced man of Portuguese descent who has two kids - the teenaged H
