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Coles Casual at Bayshore Shopping Centre in Ottawa, ON
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A bleak contemporary literary tragedy about intimacy, disposability, and the danger of being briefly seen by someone who never intended to stay. Ben Keller is thirty, stalled, and quietly disappearing into the small humiliations of an ordinary life: a dead-end office job, a lonely café routine, a mother who speaks in guilt, and a private intelligence no one seems interested in noticing. Then Claire sits down at his table. Beautiful, precise, and terrifyingly perceptive, she reads Ben with an ease that feels like rescue. She sharpens his clothes, his posture, his ambitions, his sense of himself. Under her attention, his life begins to change. He gets access to better rooms, better work, better versions of himself. For the first time in years, the future appears to have a shape. But what feels transformative to Ben may only be temporary to Claire. Casual is a brutal, darkly funny novel about modern intimacy, social mobility, dependence, and the asymmetry between one person's passing season and another person's entire life.
A bleak contemporary literary tragedy about intimacy, disposability, and the danger of being briefly seen by someone who never intended to stay. Ben Keller is thirty, stalled, and quietly disappearing into the small humiliations of an ordinary life: a dead-end office job, a lonely café routine, a mother who speaks in guilt, and a private intelligence no one seems interested in noticing. Then Claire sits down at his table. Beautiful, precise, and terrifyingly perceptive, she reads Ben with an ease that feels like rescue. She sharpens his clothes, his posture, his ambitions, his sense of himself. Under her attention, his life begins to change. He gets access to better rooms, better work, better versions of himself. For the first time in years, the future appears to have a shape. But what feels transformative to Ben may only be temporary to Claire. Casual is a brutal, darkly funny novel about modern intimacy, social mobility, dependence, and the asymmetry between one person's passing season and another person's entire life.
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