Suzannah Showler

Quality Time Suzannah Showler

A literary love story of Millennial discontent that explores how far two people can go inventing their own parallel reality--with raccoons.

Ferociously in love and in their own universe, Lydie and Nico's first year together was so beautiful that they've been recreating it, day by day, ever since. The anniversaries, sometimes elaborate, sometimes small, become the couples' own internal logic, tethering them to a reality they've built together.

But the real world is starting to creep in. As the people around them start to get married, get pregnant, get serious, Lydie wonders what it is they're really doing--and why it leaves her so little time to focus on what she moved to the city for: creating art. Meanwhile, Nico experiences a divine event that convinces him the anniversaries matter more than ever, and in the city around them, the urban wildlife is rising up on a mission of their own.

A vivid time capsule of recession-era Toronto, Quality Time is a universal story of self-discovery and invention, capturing that rare, innocent time when we feel like masters of our own fate, and what happens when the real world starts to press in from the edges.
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