Longlisted for the 2024 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour

In this darkly funny debut from Lucie Page, characters collide in unexpected ways as they search to create meaning in their lives.

A university English sessional teacher searches for his missing blind pit bull, not entirely aware that his relationship is coming unravelled. Katherine, his girlfriend, pays far more attention to her walk-on role in an alternative theatre production. Fourteen-year-old Becca struggles to get her mother's attention, while her mother provides calorie-wise snacking and fashion advice and dates Becca's psychologist. Karl fails to control his embarrassing and shameful bad habit at his dead-end telemarketing job.

Page weaves together narratives that speak of people adrift in the conflicting tides of the first decades of the twenty-first century in a novel that echoes the works of Lynda Barry.

What begins as a search for a lost dog propels a group of unconnected characters into a harrowing journey of self-discovery.

About the Author
Lucie Page is a French-Canadian writer and screenwriter (Another Life, Slasher, Les Champs de Boue) whose fiction has been published in Carte Blanche, Robot Butt, and This Magazine. She's received several awards for her original screenplays, won the Great Canadian Literary Hunt for fiction, and the O'Neill-Karsh award for her first full-length play. Lucie divides her time between Toronto and Vancouver Island.

Reviews

"Peeling back the binary of cold and explosive personalities, ambition, anxieties, and desire, Lost Dogs is a story about what all of us fear and long for. Page brings her acclaimed television writing experience to bear on the novel, creating a compulsively readable, character-driven tale."

* Open Book *
"I definitely recommend this as a clever take on modern existence and self-discovery that will be on my mind for a long time to come." * Bookaholic Bex *
"A beautiful mess of protagonists who transform before our very eyes as they search for their home in the world. I adored Lost Dogs and Page's clever writing style. Her characters live in the back of my mind." -- McKenzie, Changing Hands Bookstore, Tempe, Arizona
"A novel about the best and worst of us, but mostly the latter. Darkly funny for sure." -- Kerry Clare * Instagram *


Awards
Long-listed for Leacock Medal for Humour 2024 (Canada).



Book Information
ISBN 9781770866690
Author Lucie Page
Format Paperback
Page Count 328
Imprint Cormorant Books,Canada
Publisher Cormorant Books,Canada
Weight(grams) 362g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 24mm