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Sep 14, 2010 · Waiting for Joe is 100-percent genuine, bone-chilling Canadiana.” — John Barber, The Globe and Mail “Deeply moving. . . . Birdsell draws . . . lives with vivid detail, suspense and sensitivity, creating a narrative that forces readers to keep turning the pages to find out how all the characters sort out their individual sense of ‘enough
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Sep 14, 2010 · Amazon.com: Waiting for Joe eBook : Birdsell, Sandra: Kindle Store. Skip to main content.us. Delivering to Lebanon 66952 Update location ...
Sep 14, 2010 · Waiting for Joe by Sandra Birdsell. This is an emotional book by a Canadian author. The characters feel so real. The book is a picture into a time in Joe and Laurie's life, shortly after their lives start to fall apart. They are on the run in a stolen motorhome, after losing everything when Joe's business fails and they lose everything.
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272 p. ; 22 cm "On a chilly early morning in late spring, Joe Beaudry and his wife, Laurie, wake up in a stolen motorhome on the edge of a Walmart parking lot in Regina, Saskatchewan.
For Joe, it's the last straw in a marriage that once seemed star-crossed and now seems simply unworkable. Pushed to figure out what to do next, Joe simply takes off hitchhiking, leaving Laurie waiting for Joe, and Joe wondering how he will ever find meaning in a world that has disappointed his every expectation.
For Joe, it's the last straw in a marriage that once seemed star-crossed and now seems simply unworkable.Pushed to figure out what to do next, Joe simply takes off hitchhiking, leaving Laurie waiting for Joe, and Joe wondering how he will ever find meaning in a world that has disappointed his every expectation.
Sep 24, 2010 · Article content Waiting for Joe By Sandra Birdsell Random House Canada 272 pp.; $29.95Reviewed by Randy Boyagoda. Sandra Birdsell’s new novel concerns the scuffed-up lives of a couple named Joe ...
