Catch The Angel Riots Edited By Ibi Kaslik Rendered As Print

from two perspectives in parallel : the perspective of Rize, the trombonist of The Angel Riots, a rock band and the perspective of Jim, a young woman who becomes a violinist in the Divine Light, an orchestra.

As the orchestra and the band merge, their members merge and collide as well, creating drama and controversy,
Not my kind of plot, but Kaslik's prose is charming, dense and at times mildly poetic just the way I like it.
A short, nice read. I like the way the author put together Jim's story of selfdiscovery and innocence and Rize's train crash of a life as they become members of the The Angel Riots.
Their difference experiences from earlier on, as well as, the group grows in popularity and fame, What chaos ensues them and how they deal with it, to know that life goes on, While the book deals with a band on tour, it isn't a typical rockbandontour book, Which was the impression that it was going to be when I first picked it up, More like a group of people from a dysfunctional families who have dysfuntional relationships and are trying hard to create some art that has some meaning for their fans.
Very deep and thoughtful at times,

From page
"Maybe the mystics are right: it's a total freeforall and you're on your own,
Having crushed a living being, my own brother, in our mother's womb with our umbilical cord, my own karma was set from the start.
I had been wrong to believe otherwise, I'd already broken the cardinal rule of not hurting another living being, and without even the benefit of direct oxygen.

Yawnie was born choking, and after the accident he always seemed to be throttled by something cookies, water, air maybe it made sense to leave him there, tangled on that cord.

I was born loving a man or rather an acorn of a man, I'd had that love and held it in my hands and then I crushed it like a pinkedskinned bird when it got too hard to take care of.
I never deluded myself into believing my love was anything other than damage, I never told Isaac I loved him, as I knew it would curse him, so I committed my body, and my actions, to relay the message.

I'm only eighteen and it's already too late for me, I see that now, I've already harmed my soulmate, taken his name, abandoned him, so I've no right to talk about soulmates, or any of that.
Because even if you've lucky enough to have one it doesn't mean you can be together,
I try to string my thoughts into some kind of logical order but it's useless, After drinking half a bottle of Jim Beam and holding my head in my hands for four straight hours, trying to feel something other than numb, I decide it's better to go rehearsal than stay in and watch the eleven o'clock report on Isaac.
So, garbed in distressed leather armour and black gloves, with my case in tow, I head out into the endless April rain.
" Acclaimed author Ibi Kaslik takes readers backstage with upandcoming Montreal band The Angel Riots on their American tour, The band's story unfolds through the eyes of Jim, a smalltown violin prodigy who struggles with her past as well as her present and Rize, an emotionally charged trombone player who is stuck playing sidekick to his best friend, charismatic lead singer Jules.
As the band's popularity mounts, the pressures of roadlife and success begin to complicate relationships and The Angel Riots' chaotic world threatens to implode.
Dark and dazzling, this novel will firmly establish Kaslik's reputation as a young literary talent, Very good, especially if you are a follower of the indie music scene, I picked this book up at a local thrift store because the title caught my attention, I'm the type to read a book in one sitting, if not, usually in a week, though the story is very interesting, it moves very slow, it wasn't hard for me to read a few chapters and be content with putting it down, the author very clearly demonstrates a good image of the setting in the story, as someone who has been to Montreal many times it was very easy to almost feel like you were there.
but my main qualm is with her characterization, though I believe it was written in two different perspectives to maybe show how similar the two main characters are, if not paying attention to the name at the top of the chapter it was hard to figure out who was talking until certain relationships or situations were brought up.
by this I mean I just wish this was more of a language difference between Jim and Rize because I think anyone will tell you that anyearold white girl who grew up in the country is going to have different slang and dialect than aish rockstar.
Besides the random racial descriptors of

white characters and lack of diversity, it was easy to use my imagination and add my own diversity the book is well written and the plot is well thought out.
I did recommend this book to a friend and she is currently reading my copy, I'd say a solid.out of ten. I could reread this a thousand times, Based on the real life story of BSS and Stars hitting the road for the first time, This is one of the best books written in thest century, Ibi Kaslik is one of the most astounding novelists of thest century.
You're a lunatic if you don't realize this as soon as possible, Finally started reading this and loving it, I was afraid of the dense prose at first, but it flows like a good rock riff, This book was supposedly based on stories about the band Broken Social scene, I wanted to like this book a lot more than I did, I was impressed with the beginning, but it fell flat, Ibi Kaslik is an internationally published novelist and freelance writer, Her recent novel, The Angel Riots, is a critically acclaimed rock n roll comic tragedy and was nominated for Ontarios Trillium award.
Her first novel, Skinny, was a New York Times Bestseller and has been published in numerous countries, Ibi teaches creative writing at the University of Torontos School of Continuing Studies, .