Dirty Work
My Gruelling, Glorious, Life-changing Summer In the Wilderness
Winner, Louise de Kiriline Lawrence Award for Nonfiction
Lands of Lost Borders meets The Electric Woman in this vibrant coming-of-age memoir about a young woman's fierce, filthy, exhausting, and joyous experience working at a wilderness lodge.
When Anna Maxymiw accepts a summer job as a housekeeper at a fishing lodge in Northern Ontario, she has little idea what to expect. At twenty-three, she has decided to step away from her master's degree and city life to board a floatplane bound for the remote boreal forest.
For sixty-seven days, Anna will be working and living alongside twelve strangers. Together this group of young men and women will keep the lodge running. While the fishing guides head out on the water with the fishermen…
$24.95
May 7, 2019
ANNA MAXYMIW is the author of the novel Minique. Her memoir, Dirty Work: My Gruelling, Glorious, Life-Changing Summer In the Wilderness, won the Louise de Kiriline Lawrence Award for Nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Maclean’s, the Washington Post, and the Toronto Star, and has won a National Magazine Award. She lives in Toronto.
Minique
Anna Maxymiw