Snap

by Susin Nielsen

This book is by a BC author and takes place in the Vancouver area. It is a sad book at times but also funny.  The story is about three people who are assigned to take anger managment sessions and do community service cleaning up local parks.  The three people are a girl who was sexually approached by an old actor while she was a costume assistant on a tv program set, when she is approached by a leche in a mall she pushes him down an escalator, the second person is a children's author who is going through a divorce because her husband has decided he is gay.  The author has a meltdown at a school when a young student is rude while she is talking.  She takes him by the shoulders and shakes him.  This episode goes viral and she loses her publishing deals and her school talk income.  The third person is a man who wanted to buy into a muffler franchise and after he has put down a downpayment finds his boss is having an affair with his wife.  He defaces the bosses car and pees in his fountain.

The man's husband wants to get sole custody of their son, the man is really upset about this.  The two women try to talk to the boss to get him to remove a restraining order removed and also encourage his lover to let her ex have access to the son.  The boss recognizes the children's author and this is bad news for the man when he goes to court.... he is associating with a child abuser.....

Eventually all three become close friends supporting each other, and each find some peace in their lives.

The book was funny, the references to local bc made it interesting.  I enjoyed it and especially how the story developed.