Rare Machines Spring Launch Party: May 21st at the Burdock Brewery, 1184 Floor Street West, Toronto, ON from 7-9pm.
Drunk Fiction: May 27th at the Caledonian Whiskey Bar, 856 College Street, Toronto, ON at 6pm.
Victoria Launch Party: June 10th upstairs at The Bent Mast (all ages), 512 Simcoe Street, James Bay, Victoria, BC, at 6pm.
“There are, depending on who you ask, only three or six or seven or nine different types of story in the world. However long or short the list, The Journey is almost always one of them. Think The Odyssey, The Divine Comedy, The Lord of the Rings, or On The Road. And there’s some part of the Canadian heart that is especially attuned to the forced narrative of travel. Maybe it’s the continent-spanning distance, the mind-bending empty space.” (more)
–Ryan Frawley: author of Scar, (novel) and Towers Temples Palaces: Essays from Europe.
“Amaranthine Chevrolet is cinematic in scope, beautifully evocative of coming of age in a simpler time.”
–Pierre Sarrazin: film producer
“Resonates across generations…a fascinating portrait of humility and grace in the struggle between material possession and spiritual growth. At turns hilarious, tension-filled, bittersweet, and sensual, Amaranthine Chevrolet puts the ‘road’ back into the Great Canadian Road Novel while infusing it with meaning.”
–Daniel Gawthrop: author of Double Karma and The Rice Queen Diaries
“Reflecting life in rural Canada in the 1960s, the wonderful historical novel Amaranthine Chevrolet shows strangers lending a helping hand to a boy on the road, who meets a world driven on by no small amount of hope.” (more)
–Nick Gardner
“On the Road meets The Zen of Motorcycle Maintenance in this off-road novel that is by turns comedic, touching, philosophical, heart-wrenching, heart-warming and poetic.”
–Hart Hanson: Creator of the series Bones, writer of novels The Driver and The Seminarian
“Right from the beginning, I felt like I’m reading a work of John Steinbeck, the purity of common life scribed across the pages.” (more at netgallery.com)
–Asvin M (Net Gallery reviewer)
“Enjoyed it. Amaranthine Chevrolet chronicles an epic journey that transforms Robin, a teenage boy, as he faces and accepts events that warped his early life. It is a hero’s journey; I was with him all the way. Reaching his final goal I thought, you will be fine Robin, travel well. As he heads down that highway, I think he will be okay.”
–W.D. Valgardson: author of Bloodflowers
“The ground we cover geographically and emotionally is expansive. There’s grief and joy, moments that show both the good and bad in humanity, and a delightfully rag-tag group of folk we meet along the way.” (more at netgallery.com)
