The Bootlegger Blues
- Authors
- Taylor, Drew Hayden
- Publisher
- Fitzhenry & Whiteside
- Tags
- humour
- ISBN
- 9780920079799
- Date
- 1991-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.81 MB
- Lang
- en
This new comedy by the author of Toronto at Dreamer's Rock and Education Is Our Right is about love, family, and what to do with too much beer.A Set on a reserve, it follows the plight of Martha, a church-going, teetotaling woman who finds herself stuck with 143 cases of beer after a church fundraiser fails.A She decides to bootleg the beer, to the horror of her son Andrew, nicknamed Blue, who is a special constable on the reserve.Meanwhile, Andrew has fallen for a young woman he thinks is his cousin, and his sister Marianne is bored with her Indian Yuppie husband and finds herself attracted to a handsome dancer at the powwow.The pace is fast and vigorous in this romantic situation comedy.