Once Removed

Product Description

Timothy Heppner is a frustrated ghostwriter struggling to make ends meet in Edenfeld, a small Mennonite community bulldozing its way towards modernity–if it’s old, it has to go!
A member of the Preservation Society but desperate to keep his job with the mayor’s Parks and Wreck department, Timothy finds himself in an awkward position when he is hired to write an updated version of the town’s history book. Fuelled by warring loyalties, the threat of personal bankruptcy, and a good deal of fried bologna, Timothy must find his own voice to tell the one story that could make–or break–him.
Honest and laugh-out-loud funny, Once Removed explores the real costs of progress in this new Canadian classic.

Review

An affectionate pastiche of small-town Mennonite life, replete with duty, folly, irreverence and joy. -David Bergen,
StrangerHilarious as
Schitt’s Creek, sinister as Hitchcock,
Once Removed gives us Timothy Heppner, the quintessential non-resistant Mennonite, in
a
comic
tour de force that exposes the friction between progress and preservation, ethnic pride and ethnic embarrassment, commerce and heritage, truth and boosterism, and the coercion and acquiescence that is as real to the big city as to a small town. -Armin Wiebe,
Grandmother Laughing

About the Author

Andrew Unger is best known as the author and founder of the satire website The Daily Bonnet. An educator based in southern Manitoba, his work has appeared in Geez, Rhubarb, Ballast, CBC.ca, the Winnipeg Free Press, and many others. If you go back far enough, he’s probably related to you.