Darwin's Moving

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Publication Year:
2017

ISBN-13: 9781988732046

&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;<p><b>Winner of the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize!<br>Finalist&#10;in the Trade Non-Fiction Award at the 2018 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!<br>Finalist&#10;in the Cover Design Award at the 2018 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!</b><br>In a city&#10;known for wealth and prosperity, the divide between haves and have-nots is&#10;rarely clearer than on moving day, when those two worlds come together in&#10;intimate fashion. Violent ex-cons and drug addicts are invited into spacious&#10;homes, entrusted with the care and transport of the possessions of the upper&#10;classes&#8212;a unique bridging of two normally segregated&#10;worlds.</p><p><i>Darwin&#8217;s Moving</i> is an intriguing&#10;and affecting exploration of class divides by a journalist and former mover.&#10;Taylor Lambert takes us behind the scenes of a familiar industry that is almost&#10;completely undocumented in Canadian literature to reveal the cycles of poverty&#10;and addiction that ensnare its workers. This is the Other Calgary, a world&#10;populated by transient men and women struggling to survive in a boomtown's&#10;shadow.</p>&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;<p><b>Winner of the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize!<br>Finalist&#10;in the Trade Non-Fiction Award at the 2018 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!<br>Finalist&#10;in the Cover Design Award at the 2018 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!</b></p><p>In a city&#10;known for wealth and prosperity, the divide between haves and have-nots is&#10;rarely clearer than on moving day, when those two worlds come together in&#10;intimate fashion. Violent ex-cons and drug addicts are invited into spacious&#10;homes, entrusted with the care and transport of the possessions of the upper&#10;classes&#8212;a unique bridging of two normally segregated&#10;worlds.</p><p><i>Darwin&#8217;s Moving</i> is an intriguing&#10;and affecting exploration of class divides by a journalist and former mover.&#10;Taylor Lambert takes us behind the scenes of a familiar industry that is almost&#10;completely undocumented in Canadian literature to reveal the cycles of poverty&#10;and addiction that ensnare its workers. This is the Other Calgary, a world&#10;populated by transient men and women struggling to survive in a boomtown's&#10;shadow.</p>&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;