Her roommates include Rachel, a brilliant grad student and poet, and Seven, a heartbreakingly handsome bartender and drug dealer. When Evie makes the move from her parents’ house in the suburb of Dorval to a room with a view in the heart of the bohemian Plateau, she is still a baby, never having experienced heartbreak, loss or discrimination. Whittall sustains a sensitivity to a Montreal divided not only by English and French, oui et non, but by the increasing visibility of an educated urban class rising up against the staunch old Catholic rule.Ĭharged by Whittall’s feminist voice, the narrative centres around Evie, who starts off smelling like a cupcake and gets more hard-core every day. The story, set in Montreal from 1995 to the early spring of 96, encompasses both the referendum and the Montreal Massacre. It’s a delicious, bright suburban delicacy melting in the inner-city sun. Bottle Rocket Hearts, the debut novel from NOW contributor Zoe Whittall, is a coming-of-age tale that goes down like a cherry popsicle.
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