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When Kid accompanies her parents to New York City for a six-month stint of dog-sitting and home-schooling, she sees what looks like a tiny white cloud on the top of their apartment building. Rumor says there s a goat living on the roof, but how can that be? As Kid soon discovers, a goat on the roof may be the least strange thing about her new home, whose residents are both strange and fascinating. In the penthouse lives Joff Vanderlinden, the famous skateboarding fantasy writer, who happens to be blind. On the ninth floor are Doris and Jonathan, a retired couple trying to adapt to a new lifestyle after Jonathan s stroke. Kenneth P. Gill, on the tenth, loves opera and tends to burble on nervously about his two hamsters or are they guinea pigs? Then there s Kid s own high-maintenance mother, Lisa, who is rehearsing for an Off Broadway play and is sure it will be the world s biggest flop.
About the Author
Anne Fleming is the author of five books: , shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, the Danuta Gleed Award and the Governor General's Award; the critically acclaimed novel, , also shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson; , a book of poems shortlisted for the BC Book Prizes' Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize; and , a novel for children. Her non-fiction has been published in a raft of anthologies, including Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme, Great Expectations: Twenty-Four True Stories About Childbirth, and Anne grew up in Toronto and lived in Kitchener, Ontario for a chunk of time before moving to Vancouver, where she received her MFA from UBC. Her fiction has won National Magazine Awards, been commissioned by CBC Radio, and widely published in magazines and anthologies. A highly regarded teacher of creative writing, she has been on faculty at both UBC campuses, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and the Banff Centre for the Arts. She now divides her time between Vancouver (unceded Coast Salish territory) and Kelowna (unceded Syilx territory) , where she teaches at UBC's Okanagan Campus. She likes to cross-country ski and play the ukulele, although not necessarily at the same time. ???
