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Muskoka

Muskoka

By Julian Samuel

A man down on his luck meets the woman of his dreams in an adult education course. But this is no ordinary male fantasy: the man is a Pakistani-Canadian artist with a treatable recurrent cancer; the young lady is an Indigenous princess just returned from art school in Europe to her father’s glass summer palace in Muskoka. This romantic comedy, set in mid-Toronto and on Lake Rosseau, plays with the intersection of Indigenous, settler, and immigrant success stories against the background of mortality and the stars.

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(Essential Prose)

9781771838771

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Muskoka, Julian Samuel’s short new novel, takes in the deadly serious matters of colonization, displacement, ramped-up privilege and performative justice in Canada––but in the refreshing shape of a left-field rom-com that bristles with edgy humour. Centred around the lovestruck and quizzical Mohammed, the result is a prickly yet touching read that’s stuffed with laughs and provocations. Highly recommended.

Hein Marais, author of The Job Crisis in South Africa and Beyond: The Case for a Universal Basic Income

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Julian Samuel is a writer, painter, and amateur astronomer. He was born in Lahore, Pakistan and has lived in the United Kingdom, Peterborough, Ontario and Montreal. He currently lives in Toronto.