{"product_id":"dirty-birds-by-morgan-murray","title":"Dirty Birds by Morgan Murray","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn late 2008, as the world’s economy crumbles and Barack Obama ascends to the White House, the remarkably unremarkable Milton Ontario – not to be confused with Milton, Ontario – leaves his parents’ basement in Middle-of-Nowhere, Saskatchewan, and sets forth to find fame, fortune, and love in the Eur\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"moreellipses\"\u003e... \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"morecontent\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eo-lite electric sexuality of Montreal; to bask in the endless twenty-something Millennial adolescence of the Plateau; to escape the infinite flatness of Saskatchewan and find his messiah – Leonard Cohen. Hilariously ironic and irreverent, in Dirty Birds, Morgan Murray generates a quest novel for the twenty-first century—a coming-of-age, rom-com, crime-farce thriller—where a hero’s greatest foe is his own crippling mediocrity as he seeks purpose in art, money, power, crime, and sleeping in all day.\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cimg style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Breakwater Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51899461861694,"sku":"9781550818079","price":22.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/7304\/5822\/files\/Screenshot2025-06-24113157.png?v=1750773734","url":"https:\/\/theshop.healthcarefoundation.ca\/products\/dirty-birds-by-morgan-murray","provider":"The Shop at Health Sciences Centre","version":"1.0","type":"link"}