Keeping Things Whole

It's 1998 and Antony Williams is about to meet his match. A Windsor, Ontario, native, raised by his single mother on a diet of Greek drama and some hard lessons in self-sufficiency, at twenty-five Antony's existence is defined largely by his proximity to the American border and the view of neighbouring Detroit. With a sharp sense of cross-border culture, backhanded affection for his hometown, and growing understanding of his own family's place in its bootleg history, Antony makes his living as a house painter by day while at night using a homemade trebuchet to catapult loads of Canadian-grown weed across the river to Detroit.Then he meets Kate Chan, a beautiful, street-smart law student, who calls his bluff and picks apart his personal mythology. Ultimately she will present him with a choice that draws on the very things that mythology has been built upon. Keeping Things Whole recounts the arc of their relationship cut with Antony's entertaining manifestoes on marijuana, legality, art, theatre, sex, money, and lineage.With this, his second novel, Darryl Whetter gives us a maddeningly cocky but introspective hero, and his frank, nuanced portrait of a border city and its underground history.