num_pages: 262
description: Brilliantly sure-footed strikingly original tender and funny this memorable collection of nine linked stories follows a diverse group of curiously interrelated characters from bank manager to crackhead to retired Samaritan to mental patient to web designer to car thief  as they drift through each others lives like ghosts in Vancouvers notorious Downtown Eastside.These darkly comic and intoxicating stories gleefully free of moral judgment are about people searching in the jagged margins of lifefor homes drugs love forgiveness. They range from the tragically funny opening story Emergency Contact to the audacious drug-fuelled rush of Goodbye Porkpie Hat to the deranged and thrilling extreme of King Me.The Beggars Garden is a powerful and affecting debut written with an exceptional eye and ear and heart.
language: English
title: The Beggar's Garden
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers