Breaking and Entering

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https://www..com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/00_BO021_BREAKING-AND-ENTERING_SAMPLE.mp3Longlisted for the 2023 Republic of Consciousness US and Canada Prize AnOprah DailyBest Book of 2023 One of theGlobe and Mails Most Anticipated Titles of 2023 Listed inCBC BooksFiction to Read in Fall 2023 A49th ShelfFall Book To Put On Your List One of theGlobe100s Best Books of 2023During the hottest summer on record, Beas dangerous new hobby puts everyones sense of security to the test.Forty-nine and sweating through the hottest summer on record, Beatrice Billings is rudderless: her marriage is stale, her son communicates solely through cryptic text messages, her mother has dementia, and she conducts endless arguments with her older sister in her head. Toronto feels like an inadequately air-conditioned museum of its former self, and the same could be said of her life. She dreams of the past, her days as a newlywed, a new mom, a new homeowner gutting the kitchennow the only novel experience that looms is the threat of divorce.Everything changes when she googles escape and discovers the world of amateur lock-picking. Breaking into houses is thrilling: shes subtle and discreet, never greedy, but as her curiosity about other peoples lives becomes a dangerous compulsion and the entire city feels a few degrees from boiling over, she realizes she must turn her guilty analysis on herself. A searingly insightful rendering of midlife among the anxieties of the early twenty-first century,Breaking and Enteringis an exacting look at the fragility of all the things we take on faith.Praise forBreaking and EnteringSurely the most interesting midlife crisis of the year.Marion Winik,Oprah DailyIn a quiet story that takes place over only a few summer months, the Canadian author deftly converges doubt, infidelity and the fragility of family in a narrative that is both thrilling and relatable.New York TimesGillmor succeeds at pulling you into the hopes, dreams, expectations, desires, anxieties and pathologies of his characters Like jazz, the moments of tension in the book give away to moments of relief, only to return to building tension once more reading it will strike a chord.David Moscorp,Globe and MailHilarious and devastating.Globe and MailBea (is) a powerfully drawn character Every aspect of the novel feels true. Her relationship is not only closely (almost clinically) observed, but also deeply felt, lived in. That balance, between critical distance and emotional immersion, lends the novel a powerful verisimilitude.Toronto StarThe genius of this book is to capture the exact way a familiar world of aging parents and divorcing friends and nice charcuterie platters could go right around the bend. A smart, funny, and sneakily terrifying version of the way we live now. (Do not read without working air conditioning.)Kirkus Reviews(Starred Review)Knowledge is mostly sadness in this intelligent book: No matter where Bea breaks in, she keeps finding herself.Sam Sacks, Wall Street JournalGillmor is adept at capturing the zeitgeist with sweeping brush strokes and vivid references.Literary Review of CanadaA searing tale of midlife, the need to be seen, and how easy it is to lose oneself by slow degrees,Breaking and Enteringis written with Gillmors trademark power and insight, a novel of depth and painful truths filtered through strikingly rendered characters.Open BookBreaking and Enteringis a character study of a privileged woman in mid life who is challenged with finding meaning in a world on the brink of collapse Yet Gillmor suffuses the book with humanity and humour This is a thoughtful, entertaining, and beautifully written novel.Glenda MacFarlane,The BridgeThe novel follows main character Beas path in the world of amateur lock picking through a story that includes family drama, the hottest summer in Torontos history, a mid-life crisis and a Google search.Devon Banfield,Now TorontoBreaking and Enteringis a red-hot novel, sweaty and sexy, that pulls off a complex three-way analogy between the unsustainability of intimacy, our increasingly unlivable and volatile climate, and the coy seduction of caressing a lock until it eases open. Unsurprisingly, Beas perverse thrill at being an invisible intruder slides into voyeurism, creating an amusing interplay where she, the readers, and the author are all complicit in the desire to probe into the lives of strangers.McGill TribuneGillmor is a skilled writer.Winnipeg Free PressWhile we dont recommend stealing, we do recommend living vicariously through Beas sticky fingers.ZoomerA good read.The Miramichi ReaderA devastating and droll portrait of middle age that will be instantly recognizable to the sandwich generation, stuck between kids and parents, and just generally stuck. Its a period of life that makes you want to do crazy things, and the only escape is other people.Stephen Marche, author ofThe Hunger of the WolfPraise for Don Gillmor[Long Change] is an intimate epic, a tightly focused personal narrative set against one of the most powerful economic forces of the twentieth century a window into a world which few readers will have really considered.National PostA wisely, darkly, deeply, hysterically funny novel. I could have read a thousand pages of [Mount Pleasants] insights into the absurd and terrifying enlightenments of middle age.Linden MacIntyre, author ofThe Winter WivesTo The River: Losing My Brotheris haunting, beautifully written and rightly hesitant about any certainties regarding an act as ultimately unknowable in social terms as it is in individual decisions.Brian Bethune,MacleansGillmor took on the thankless, though compelling, existential task of understanding another mans life, happiness and grief. And what makes it worth leaving.Globe and MailAs he explores the cultural, sociological and psychological questions surrounding suicide, Gillmor circles ever closer to an answer to the central question of those left behind: Why? On the way, he draws back the curtain on a subject too little discussed At its heart, though,To the Riveris a family story, focused on a brothers love and loss. It is a keen-edged, frank book, beautiful and unflinching, painful and important.Robert J. Wiersema, author ofSeven Crow StoriesA beautiful, shattering book. Wise and honest, and exquisitely written. Insight for anyone who has known the gnawing sorrow or the endless accusation of a senseless loss. It will also make you laugh out loud. Go figure.Linden MacIntyre, Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author ofThe Bishops Man