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Born during the Great Depression, Jean-Claude Morel is an Everyman, a Montreal construction worker who has built the city with his own hands, digging its metro, creating islands, and weaving expressways through the downtown core. But the progress has come at a cost: neighbourhoods have been razed, streets wiped off the map, and the Morel family expropriated.
Teeming with life, Morel uncovers a story of Montreal that has been buried under years of glitzy urban renewal and modernization. This intricately constructed literary novel is a profoundly human portrait of one man and his time, a monument to a city, and a toast to days gone by.


“[An] astounding book (. . . ) a mini-epic of an ordinary man, and a time capsule of post-war Montreal with all its problems, economic, political and environmental. I highly recommend it.” James Fisher, The Miramichi Reader
“It’s a gritty story of a working-class Montreal family – the Morels of the title. (. . .) a novel that reminds me of some of Zola’s representations of working people in similar circumstances” Simon Lavery, Tredynas Days
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