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The Milk Chicken Bomb

by Andrew Wedderburn

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ISBN13: 9781552451809
ISBN10: 1552451801
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The kid sells lemonade. Not a lot of people buy lemonade, especially now that it??'s winter, but the kid makes good lemonade, even if his friend Mullen thinks it ought to be sweeter.

They don't talk much with the other ten-year-olds ??? most of the others are Dead Kids anyway. Except for Jenny Tierney, but she's busy breaking kids' faces with her math book. Besides, the Russians from the meat-packing plant are a lot cooler, and they always win at curling.

But in small-town Alberta, there are just too many roman-candle fights, bonspiels, retaliatory river diversions, black-market submarines, exploding boilers, meat-packing-plant suicides and recess-time lightning strikes for one lonely kid to get any attention. He might as well go to Kazakhstan. Then the adults in his life start disappearing down tunnels and into rendering vats. Being ten is hard enough without all that, especially when your best friend is ruining the lemonade.

But the Milk Chicken Bomb should change everything.

Frenetic, hilarious and gently heartrending, The Milk Chicken Bomb takes us inside the mind of a troubled ten-year-old who is just beginning to understand that the adults around him are as lonely and bewildered as he is in the face of the slapstick demands of the world.

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cjmalcolm, December 1, 2007 (view all comments by cjmalcolm)
The tongue-in-cheek mystery of The Milk Chicken Bomb keeps you laughing and sighing at the same time!Andrew Wedderburn, part of the rock band Hot Little Rocket, has written a winner debut novel . He is clever at developing mid-Western small town characters and juggling many interesting mini-plots. Pathos and humour are intertwined. The author has lived what he writes about albeit the book is a little more warped!
The story's 10 year old wandering narrator/reporter is an imaginative insomniac. Although this boy is not involved with his own family, he staves off some of his loneliness with his network of eccentric friends e.g. Mullen, the Russians, and Deke Howitz. He observes town life in a fascinating way while fireworks go off and Jr. High kids joust in moving pickup trucks in the snow; and Deke tunnels under Main St. with only a spade to follow his obsession of buying a black market submarine from Uzbekistan.
Must be read to be believed!
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ISBN:
9781552451809
Author:
Wedderburn, Andrew
Publisher:
Coach House Press
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Male friendship
Subject:
Alberta
Publication Date:
April 2007
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
291
Dimensions:
8.00x5.26x.96 in. .91 lbs.
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