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Renovating Heaven

RENOVATING HEAVEN: a novel in triptych
Oolichan Books, Lantzville, B.C. 2008

“In RENOVATING HEAVEN, Schroeder writes like Garrison Keillor when Keillor’s hot. He’s got the American humourist’s wonderful knack of combining love with ridicule, and joy with hints of the dark side of family life. This is just a beautiful piece of work!”  Harry Bruce, author, journalist.

“A fine novel about trying to love, trying to forgive, and trying to build something perfect; a trapeze glide from the comic into the tragic and back, to a place of balance in between. A pleasure in three sure-handed parts.”  Fred Stenson, novelist/screenwriter.

“As the title suggests, this book is about making things new – a new life in a new country, a new house in a new city, a new way of life for the son who grows up an artist in a culture that frowns upon art. This is an important story, beautifully told.”  Jack Hodgins, novelist.

“At first, RENOVATING HEAVEN lulls the reader into the nostalgic comfort of hilarious family memories, but the accumulated gathering of comic events adds up to a tragic portrait of people displaced by history, stifled by exaggerated belief systems, buoyed up and crushed by faith and love.”  Armin Wiebe, novelist/satirist.

“Schroeder pitches his novel between apparent irreconcilables: humour and tragedy, past and present, fiction and autobiography, Old World and New World. The perceptions here ring fresh and true. It is a deeply felt, funny, moving and rewarding book.”  Alex Ramon, in Canadian Literature Magazine, #205, Summer 2010. (www.Canlit.ca

PRIZES, AWARDS:

  • Shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize; BC Book Awards.
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