Claudia, single mom of two, pines for her past independent life. Her ex, after all, has moved on to a new wardrobe, new hobbies and—worst of all—new adult friends. But in Claudia's house she's still finding bananas in the sock drawer, cigarettes taped to wrestling figures, and colourful doodles on her MasterCard bills. Then Claudia receives the unexpected news that her mother has died. Shared through the hilarious, honest, and often poignant perspective of a single mother, Roost is the story of a woman learning about motherhood while grieving the loss of her own mother. And as she begins to mend, she's also learning that she might be able to accept her home—even as it is.

Ali Bryan's first novel, Roost, won the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction and was selected for One Book Nova Scotia in 2014. Her second novel, The Figgs, was published by Freehand Books in 2018. Ali is a personal trainer and lives in Calgary with her husband, three children, and rabbit.

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Nina Richmond loves narrating books. Having narrated many audiobooks, spanning fiction and non-fiction, including novels, young adult stories, memoirs, historical accounts, textbooks and more, Nina has come to value the ability to share written works with those who cannot read or those who prefer the comfort of hearing a human voice tell them a story. When not narrating audiobooks, Nina is a voiceover and onscreen actor as well.

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• Winner, Georges Bugnet Award for Novel

Roost is hilarious… The details — of setting, of interaction, of the endless tumult of family life — are spot-on. It’s easy to underrate both the comedic and domestic spheres, but Bryan’s domestic comedy, laced with grief, unearths the complexities of the daily grind.