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OF BELIEVERS ROUGHING IT
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See The Sparrow Fall

is a novel of the road

set in the Toronto of tomorrow

& in the mind of
the average driver

of today.

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Globe & Mail “Uniquely engaging ... Mirthful ... Full of sardonic whimsy ... A fervent lament ... Assesses the sorry state of our urban subconscious as revealed in the discord on city streets and expressways ... If it were required reading in driving schools, it would almost certainly save lives.”
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Canadian Writer's Journal “The characters stay with you long after the book has been read. They are opinionated, sometimes eccentric, fresh, and border on the bizarre. They feel crazy enough to be real; I hope they are not. The revolution of the ‘sane’ drivers and the revenge they exact is a chilling and almost believable scenario ... You will never drive the same way again!”

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Professor Radshak Abedni is a celebrated genius and a U of T brain scientist. But he is quite helpless behind the wheel of a car. He befriends a man called Pappy, an expert on driving, but also a superstitious, culturally-challenged old salt who speaks boilerplate Newfoundlandese. Pappy is fired as a driving examiner for never giving anyone a pass. Pappy’s son, Rufus, is an armed and unconventional driving instructor. Father and son are fanatical proponents of driving with the brain fully engaged, while Professor Abedni is designing a fool-proof car — any fool can drive it and survive. The three conspirators set out with unwavering determination to change the way Canadians drive — with or without their cooperation.

The Professor has some powerful primal urges, which he enjoys contemplating. He practices yogic flying to keep his brain stem under control, but still has an eye for Rufus’s girlfriend, Gloria. He warns Rufus never to leave her alone in his presence. Rufus is teaching Gloria to drive, but Gloria, a self-confessed dumb blonde, has no aptitude for it, a discovery that puts her relationship with Rufus in grave peril. The Professor, Pappy, and Rufus decide that Gloria will be their test case guinea pig. If this dumb blonde can be redeemed, there is yet hope for the mass of humanity. If not, then there are other options, far more grievous, with unpredictable consequences.