Union Station: Love, Madness, Sex and Survival on the Streets of the New Toronto
A Nonfiction book. Excellent read.
The critically acclaimed author of The Closer We Are to Dying now turns his penetrating gaze to the big city he calls home.Toronto is the city that Canadians love to hate. But they don’t know this city, says Joe Fiorito. Even Torontonians don’t really know this city because it changes every day. It’s not a finished thing, it’s a work in progress. It’s New York in 1900, arms open wide to welcome the huddling masses.Union Station is Fiorito’s tour of his adopted city, from his own neighbourhood, Parkdale, through corner stores and local bars, to the suburban high rises that are home to new immigrants, and to the shelters that offer a tough bed to the many homeless. Fiorito’s Toronto exists here, on the street, in places where diverse cultures jostle side by side and where mercy is free.Fiorito’s subtle and detailed...
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- Pages: 328 pages
- ISBN: 9780771047619 / 771047614
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Excellent read. A relatively recent account on the life in New Toronto, this book is a fresh look into the live in the city through the daily lives and sorrows of its inhabitants. The Torontonians are the real places that locate us into the city of Joe Fiorito, as he tells stories of the Italians and their influence, the Polish granny who collects... I found this book slow to get into and, at one point, was going to give up on it. But I'm glad I stuck with it. Now I'd recommend it.It's not your usual touristy book. It's a book about the people of Toronto ... the homeless, the elderly, the immigrants, even a drag queen. It's about neighbourhoods (I live just east of Parkdale) and...
