With his rock-star father's fortune dwindling, how can agoraphobe Jack Madigan make money to survive? That's the plot of Canadian author Tish Cohen's Town House, this year's pick for the Big Rothesay Read.
Picking a book that would appeal to an entire high school population wasn't an easy task, but event chair Mary-Ann Gallagher tells CHSJ News they're confident Cohen's novel fits the bill.
This is the fifth year the Big Rothesay Read has been running, an event where the entire population of Rothesay high school reads the same book at the same time and culminates in a visit from the author. Cohen will in the town on May 7th.