The Canterbury Trail - Softcover

Abdou's writing is concise and observant. Her attention to detail and awareness of the backcountry lifestyle is refreshing. But it's what's happening on a deeper level--the struggles of bridging a ski bum lifestyle with the necessities of a career, pragmatism and belonging--that are revealed like a ski carving through layers of bottomless snow. --Backcountry Skiing Canada

Original and entertaining. --Quill & Quire

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This amounts to a gnarly, original fictional journey. Abdou's second novel is not the first literary work to emulate Chaucer's classic, but it could be the most uninhibited and most fun. --ABC Bookworld

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The Canterbury Trail was a Mountain and Wilderness Literature finalist in the 2011 Banff Mountain Book Competition.

-- (03/11/2011)

You don't need a grounding in Chaucer . . . to appreciate the cultural clashes, connections and revelations between the skiing pilgrims of The Canterbury Trail, or to relish the authentic suspense Abdou builds through a gradual but genuine investment in the wellbeing of the various characters. --Bookgaga Blog

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An unlikely group is pushed together, Big Chillish-style, for a close encounter of the awkward kind. --January Magazine

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In The Canterbury Trail Abdou walks a tightrope, balancing elements of comedy and tragedy with equal poise and shows herself an able inheritor of ribald Chaucerian tradition. --Reading for the Joy of It Blog

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The Canterbury Trail solidified Angie Abdou as one of my favorite writers. --Lavender Lines Book Review Blog

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Chaucer's friars, squires, merchants and summoners are substituted with ski bums, hippies, fish-out-of-water urbanites and rednecks from the fictional town of Coalton, B.C., who make a bizarre pilgrimage to a remote backwoods cabin [in The Canterbury Trail] --The Calgary Herald

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The Canterbury Trail often seems like an anthropological study of those who've devoted their lives to the mountains, and Abdou doesn't shy away from more unsavory aspects of ski culture. --Mark Medley, The National Post

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