In Search of the Perfect Singing Flamingo
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In Search of the Perfect Singing Flamingo

by Claire Tacon
  • from-ontario
  • literary
When Henry Robinson’s daughter Starr is born with Williams syndrome, he swears to devote his life to making her happy. More than twenty years later, Henry and Starr, along with Henry’s co-worker Darren, set off on an unexpected road trip as Henry strives to hold onto his daughter’s childhood and to hold off the future. In Search of the Perfect Singing Flamingo is a charming, tender and often funny story of a father struggling to let his daughters grow up and of a family struggling against hard odds, taking care of each other when the world lets them down

Contributors

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

email: contracts@transatlanticagency.com

website: http://transatlanticagency.com/

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