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Iain Reid, author of ONE BIRD’S CHOICE, on tour March 2011

December 13, 2010 By TLC Booktours Leave a Comment

About One Bird’s Choice: A Year in the Life of an Overeducated, Underemployed Twenty-Something Who Moves Back Home

Hardcover: 264 pages

Publisher: House of Anansi Press (Mar 1, 2011)

Meet Iain Reid: an overeducated, underemployed twenty-something, living in the big city in a bug-filled basement apartment and struggling to make ends meet. When Iain lands a job at a radio station near his childhood home, he decides to take it. But the work is only part time, so he is forced to move back in with his lovable but eccentric parents on their hobby farm. What starts out as a temporary arrangement turns into a year-long extended stay, in which Iain finds himself fighting with the farm fowl, taking fashion advice from the elderly, fattening up on a gluttonous fare of home-cooked food, and ultimately easing (perhaps a little too comfortably) into the semiretired lifestyle. A hilarious and heartwarming comic memoir about food, family, and finally growing up, One Bird’s Choice marks the arrival of a funny, original, and fresh new voice.

“Reid has aptly captured the angst, humour and quirkiness of his year at home…” –Canadian Press, September 16, 2010

“Reid isn’t trying to teach anybody how to eat, pray or love: he simply observes himself, his family and all their laughable idiosyncrasies…” –Maclean’s, September 16, 2010

“…gentle but hilarious humour that had me chortling without a break.” –Montreal Gazette, October 14, 2010

About Iain Reid

Iain Reid’s writing has appeared on several CBC Radio shows. He’s also written for The Globe and Mail, The Iceland Review Online, and Atlantica Magazine, among others. A graduate of Queen’s University, Iain Reid was born in Ottawa in 1981. His upcoming memoir called One Bird’s Choice is about his decision to return and live at his parent’s home on their country hobby farm for a full year in his late twenties, after having left the nest for work and university years earlier.

Iain Reid’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Tuesday, March 1st:  Along the Way

Wednesday, March 2nd:  Reading Through Life

Friday, March 4th:  A Bookworm’s World

Monday, March 7th:  Rundpinne

Wednesday, March 9th:  Life in Review

Thursday, March 10th:  The Book Chick

Tuesday, March 15th:  Silver and Grace

Wednesday, March 16th:  Novel Whore

Thursday, March 17th:  Debbie’s Book Bag!!

Thursday, March 17th:  Colloquium

Friday, March 18th:  Chick Lit Reviews

Monday, March 21st:  Luxury Reading

Wednesday, March 23rd:  I Am a Reader, Not a Writer

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