num_pages: 94
description: 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. 
language: English
title: Bootlegger Blues: A Play
titlecomplete: Bootlegger Blues: A Play
genres: Fiction, Plays, Canada
ratings_count: 32
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Canadian Authors Association Award
category: Drama
publisher: Fifth House