Longlisted for the 2023 Republic of Consciousness US and Canada Prize An Oprah Daily Best Book of 2023 One of the Globe and Mails Most Anticipated Titles of 2023 Listed in CBC Books Fiction to Read in Fall 2023 A 49th Shelf Fall Book To Put On Your List One of the Globe 100s Best Books of 2023During the hottest summer on record, Beas dangerous new hobby puts everyones sense of security to the test.Fortynine and sweating through the hottest summer on record, Beatrice Billings is rudderless her marriage is stale, her son communicates solely through cryptic text messages, her mother has dementia, and she conducts endless arguments with her older sister in her head. Toronto feels like an inadequately airconditioned museum of its former self, and the same could be said of her life. She dreams of the past, her days as a newlywed, a new mom, a new homeowner gutting the kitchennow the only novel experience that looms is the threat of divorce.Everything changes when she googles "escape" and discovers the world of amateur lockpicking. Breaking into houses is thrilling shes subtle and discreet, never greedy, but as her curiosity about other peoples lives becomes a dangerous compulsion and the entire city feels a few degrees from boiling over, she realizes she must turn her guilty analysis on herself. A searingly insightful rendering of midlife among the anxieties of the early twentyfirst century, Breaking and Entering is an exacting look at the fragility of all the things we take on...
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Longlisted for the 2023 Republic of Consciousness US and Canada Prize An Oprah Daily Best Book of 2023 One of the Globe and Mails Most Anticipated Titles of 2023 Listed in CBC Books Fiction to Read in Fall 2023 A 49th Shelf Fall Book To Put On Your List One of the Globe 100s Best Books of 2023During the hottest summer on record, Beas dangerous new hobby puts everyones sense of security to the test.Fortynine and sweating through the hottest summer on record, Beatrice Billings is rudderless her marriage is stale, her son communicates solely through cryptic text messages, her mother has dementia, and she conducts endless arguments with her older sister in her head. Toronto feels like an inadequately airconditioned museum of its former self, and the same could be said of her life. She dreams of the past, her days as a newlywed, a new mom, a new homeowner gutting the kitchennow the only novel experience that looms is the threat of divorce.Everything changes when she googles "escape" and discovers the world of amateur lockpicking. Breaking into houses is thrilling shes subtle and discreet, never greedy, but as her curiosity about other peoples lives becomes a dangerous compulsion and the entire city feels a few degrees from boiling over, she realizes she must turn her guilty analysis on herself. A searingly insightful rendering of midlife among the anxieties of the early twentyfirst century, Breaking and Entering is an exacting look at the fragility of all the things we take on...
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