Beggar's GardenLonglisted for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize Critically lauded, The Beggars Garden is a brilliantly surefooted, strikingly original collection of nine linked short stories that will delight as well as disturb. The stories follow a diverse group of curiously interrelated characters, from bank manager to crackhead to retired Samaritan to web designer to car thief, as they drift through each others lives in Vancouvers Downtown Eastside. These

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