Plan 99 Prose
with Missy Marston
Hosted by David O'Meara
This novel of working class women and the men they let into their lives is like a small town: both tough and soft. These strong, funny, and intense characters have unique and deep-seated ideas about love and family, have dreams that are big enough.
Join us at the Manx as we partner with the Plan 99 Reading Series for a late afternoon of acclaimed prose.
Loosely inspired by Ken “the Crazy Canuck” Carter’s attempt to jump the St. Lawrence River in a rocket car, and set in a 1970’s hollowed-out town in eastern Ontario, Missy Marston paints an indelible portrait of people on the forgotten fringes of life. Wildly funny and wonderfully moving, Bad Ideas is about just that—a string of bad ideas—and the absurdity of love.
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