{"product_id":"9781778530241","title":"Hides","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eHides\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel of family and politics that distinguishes itself through its careful intermingling of seriousness and comedy, and its surreal but eerily plausible setting. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs wildfires rage across Alberta and another federal election looms, four friends convene for a week-long wilderness hunting trip at a secluded hunting facility called The Castle, located in northwestern Newfoundland and operated by an enigmatic ornithologist, Dr. Judith Muir. The narrator of \u003cem\u003eHides\u003c\/em\u003e figures as a reluctant conscript on the trip, travelling out of a guilty sense of loyalty and obligation, forced to commemorate—in a way he finds morally ghoulish—the death of his best friend’s son, who was killed across the country in a mass shooting the year before. The novel’s themes coalesce around the emotional ruptures wrought of a violent, untimely death. The characters struggle to retain a sense of purpose and hope amid a world suffused with familial anguish and guilt, loss, betrayal, and a pervasive political and environmental disenchantment. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rod Moody-Corbett (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Breakwater Books Ltd |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-06-04","offer_id":44652751651071,"sku":"9781778530241","price":22.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_a0cf1808-8fe7-43c5-873f-fa9780926885.jpg?v=1704316267","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781778530241","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}