
In Search of the Perfect Singing Flamingo
by Claire TaconContributors
Claire Tacon, author
Claire Tacon’s first novel, In the Field, was the winner of the 2010 Metcalf-Rooke Award. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the Bronwen Wallace Award, the CBC Literary Prizes and the Playboy College Fiction Contest, and has appeared in journals and anthologies such as The New Quarterly, SubTerrain and Best Canadian Short Stories. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and is a past fiction editor of PRISM international. Claire is a lecturer at St. Jerome’s University and runs the fiction podcast The Oddments Tray with Chioke I’Anson.
Reviews
- Written with humour and grace, "In Search of the Perfect Singing Flamingo" centres on Henry Robinson, a father struggling to be his best in his relationship with his daughters, a father learning to hold on tighter and to let go in equal measure. Add to that a fun house and a road trip and a cast of characters you won’t soon forget, and you have a novel that manages to be clever and funny and wrenching and captivating all at once. Tacon’s writing is full of quiet magic, mixing the ordinary with the extraordinary as only great fiction can do. I couldn’t put it down until I’d reached its final page. - Amy Stuart, author of Still Mine
- Hilarious and humane, uproarious and unpredictable, Claire Tacon’s "In Search of the Perfect Singing Flamingo" hums with infectious power. Imagine George Saunders and Meg Wolitzer co-authored a book about a Chuck E. Cheese franchise in North York, only then might you get some idea of what Claire Tacon has accomplished here. It’s a story about regret, siblinghood, parenthood, fertility, nostalgia and disappointment, which is perhaps just a long way of saying: it’s a story about a family. - Michael Christie, author of If I Fall, If I Die
Rights Holder

Rights Holder: Transatlantic Agency
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rights available: World, excl. North America
Additional Information
number of pages: 224
publication date: 05/08/2018
Original language of pub: English
Materials Available: finished book