A Boy of Good Breeding

From the award-winning author of A Complicated Kindness comes a delightfully funny and charming novel about growing up, getting old, and falling in love in a small town
Life in Winnipeg didnt go as planned for Knute Corea-McCloud and her daughter, Summer Feelin. But moving back in with her parents in Algren, Manitoba, and working for the longtime mayor, Hosea Funk, has its own challenges: Knute finds herself mixed up with Hoseas attempts to achieve his dream of meeting the Prime Minister-even if that means keeping the towns population at an even 1500. Its not an easy task, with citizens threatening to leave, Summer Feelins father threatening to move back, Hoseas lady friend looking to move in, and one Algrenian on the verge of giving birth-to twins or possibly triplets. Hoseas search for his own roots takes us back to Algrens days as an outpost prairie town, when his mother, Euphemia, was seduced by a mysterious cowboy. Discovering the true identity of that cowboy fuels Hoseas many obsessions and just might reveal whether he is, indeed, a boy of good breeding.
Miriam Toewss inimitable humor and her largerthan- life characters bring small-town Canada to life. A Boy of Good Breeding is a big-hearted, hilarious novel about finding out where you belong.