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Darwin's Moving

Darwin's Moving

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<p><b>Winner of the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize!<br>Finalistin the Trade Non-Fiction Award at the 2018 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!<br>Finalistin the Cover Design Award at the 2018 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!</b><br>In a cityknown for wealth and prosperity, the divide between haves and have-nots israrely clearer than on moving day, when those two worlds come together inintimate fashion. Violent ex-cons and drug addicts are invited into spacioushomes, entrusted with the care and transport of the possessions of the upperclasses—a unique bridging of two normally segregatedworlds.</p><p><i>Darwin’s Moving</i> is an intriguingand affecting exploration of class divides by a journalist and former mover.Taylor Lambert takes us behind the scenes of a familiar industry that is almostcompletely undocumented in Canadian literature to reveal the cycles of povertyand addiction that ensnare its workers. This is the Other Calgary, a worldpopulated by transient men and women struggling to survive in a boomtown'sshadow.</p><p><b>Winner of the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize!<br>Finalistin the Trade Non-Fiction Award at the 2018 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!<br>Finalistin the Cover Design Award at the 2018 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!</b></p><p>In a cityknown for wealth and prosperity, the divide between haves and have-nots israrely clearer than on moving day, when those two worlds come together inintimate fashion. Violent ex-cons and drug addicts are invited into spacioushomes, entrusted with the care and transport of the possessions of the upperclasses—a unique bridging of two normally segregatedworlds.</p><p><i>Darwin’s Moving</i> is an intriguingand affecting exploration of class divides by a journalist and former mover.Taylor Lambert takes us behind the scenes of a familiar industry that is almostcompletely undocumented in Canadian literature to reveal the cycles of povertyand addiction that ensnare its workers. This is the Other Calgary, a worldpopulated by transient men and women struggling to survive in a boomtown'sshadow.</p>