Aaron Bushkowsky

When Alex's friend Roy told him he had cancer and only six months to live, they decide to go on a trip to the Okanagan, British Columbia's wine-growing region. While there, they stage a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream bathed in smoke from local wildfires. It was an offbeat story with everyone saying clever things and consuming a lot of wine.

The combination of a familiar locale, theatre, and humour should have made this a winner for me, unfortunately the absence of quotation marks made it difficult to know if the words were spoken or imagined, who spoke, or if it was simply narration. I spent a lot of time repeating sections to make sure I understood. If this book had included the usual punctuation I would have enjoyed it a lot more and rated it higher.… (mehr)