A charming story based on a most unusual bit of history where we put our children and old folks on the auction block when we couldn't afford them. The narrator whose name we don't know until the very end and who is a self imposed mute has been on the block as both a child and an old man. Despite those grim sounding circumstances his life story is most entertaining.

Written by Daniel Poliquin and translated wonderfully by Wayne Grady.

You'll find this book up in the crook of a tree at the corner of Fleet and Thurso. Safely (I hope) contained in a BookCrossing zip lock bag. This wonderful book was released for the Canada Day release challenge in celebration of Canadian books and authors. This year's theme is French-Canadian literature. I hope the finder enjoys the book as much as I did.

To the finder of this book:
I hope you enjoy your new read.

Welcome, also, to the wonderful and wacky world of BookCrossing! Here you'll find a unique and worldwide community of book lovers sharing their books. This book is now yours! Read it, enjoy it. Keep it or pass it on to someone you know, return it to any Little Free Library or even release it into the wild. It is all up to you.

If you make a journal entry (you can do it anonymously or as a BookCrossing member) all previous readers of this book will be notified by e-mail and can follow this book on its travels. BookCrossing is free to join, completely confidential (you are known only by your screen name and no one is ever given your email address) and it's a whole lot of fun!

This book has come back to me. The finder knowing I was a BookCrossers was all excited to have found a book for me. I hadn't the heart to tell him it was my book and I had released it. So this is my second shot at releasing this book. I left it with the Reading Woman statue in the Leo Mol garden. I hope whoever finds it this time enjoys it and doesn't give it back!

To the finder of this book:
I hope you enjoy your new read.

Welcome, also, to the wonderful and wacky world of BookCrossing! Here you'll find a unique and worldwide community of book lovers sharing their books. This book is now yours! Read it, enjoy it. Keep it or pass it on to someone you know, return it to any Little Free Library or even release it into the wild. It is all up to you.

If you make a journal entry (you can do it anonymously or as a BookCrossing member) all previous readers of this book will be notified by e-mail and can follow this book on its travels. BookCrossing is free to join, completely confidential (you are known only by your screen name and no one is ever given your email address) and it's a whole lot of fun!