'I think whoever takes over permanently at Southampton will be looking at Sulemana as a key man in their bid to try and stay up. They're hoping that he can have an immediate impact at the club and help fire them to safety in the Premier League.

'They've obviously spent big money on Sulemana. Journalist Pete O'Rourke, speaking to GIVEMESPORT, has claimed the south coast side have huge faith that the 21-year-old can spark them into life going forward. The Latest: Journalist shares Sulemana hope at Southampton. Southampton's recent 1-0 win over Chelsea at Stamford Bridge has handed the club a huge lift and it is believed those inside St. “Can someone bring me down a bag of ketchup chips? The vending machine ate my fucking loonie.” It’s easy to imagine Wes Anderson or the Coen brothers adapting this beguiling novel.Currently weighing who will be their third manager of the season, reports have suggested that Ruben Selles could be appointed as permanent boss. “ never spent much time together,” Tabby muses about the siblings’ childhood, “partly because she was so much younger than me, and partly because she was a crazy little bitch.”Įven the death of Tabby’s father is presented with charred-black humour: “Daddy’s dead,” Poppy informs her family from a hospital payphone.

It’s as though the plot were merely an excuse for Tabby to launch into ever funnier reminiscences. But these contrivances feel hollow in this novel of hilarious anecdotes. This motley collection of souls stirs up no shortage of trouble for Tabby, who must also negotiate her newfound romance with West, a bartender whose money-grubbing ex may or may not still be in the picture.Ī farcical plot ensues upon the discovery of a cache of blood-streaked money buried in the garage of the abandoned family home and the kidnapping of Tabby’s nephew by the man responsible for Bird’s injury. Back in town for the first time in years, Tabby discovers a once-proud mother who seems to have given up all hope a brother, Bird, suffering severe brain damage after an attack a second brother who has fathered kids all over town, with another on the way a deadbeat father on his deathbed and a heroin-addicted prostitute sister and her two children. Set in the fictional Nova Scotia towns of Solace River and Jubilant, Mian’s novel is narrated by Tabby Saint, a mouthy twentysomething who returns home after being sent away as a teen. She certainly knows how to spin a good yarn, and there are yarns aplenty in her debut novel – a bawdy and irreverent chronicle of one hard-luck family’s search for redemption. Sarah Mian is a true storyteller – a poet and short-story writer, the Nova Scotia–based author is also a fixture on CBC Radio’s Definitely Not the Opera.

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