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17 Grant Lawrence
If we had a rookie of the year award for writers, Grant Lawrence, host of a top-rated CBC Radio 3 podcast,
former lead singer for the internationally acclaimed indie punk rockers, The Smugglers, long-time leading voice
in Canadian arts and entertainment and Roberto Luongo wannabee, would be an odds-on favourite. His literary debut, Adventures in Solitude:
What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories From Desolation Sound, shows that Grant is as natural with a pen (more likely
a laptop) as he is with a microphone.
Desolation Sound, an area misperceived and consequently misnamed by Captain George Vancouver, is anything but desolate. Remote, wild,
pristine, awe inspiring, serene and solitary for sure, but not desolate. Grant Lawrence’s funny and poignant memoir traces his hate-at-first-sight, loveat-
second-sight relationship with Desolation Sound, where his family has owned a cabin since 1970. It is a hilariously entertaining read full of exiles
from the “real” world that has been a fixture on bestseller lists since its release last fall.
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