Poles Apart

Poles Apart by award-winning Canadian author Terry Fallis is a smart and hilarious novel about feminism, identity, social media, and the unexpected consequences of becoming an overnight sensation.

Aspiring writer Everett Kane secretly creates Eve of Equality, a thoughtful feminist blog written under the name “Eve.” When a popular talk-show host discovers the blog and shares it with her enormous audience, its following explodes almost overnight. Suddenly, the anonymous Eve is being hailed as an important new voice in modern feminism. There is just one complication: Eve is actually Everett.

Things become even more complicated when a controversial post about the entrepreneur behind a nationwide chain of high-end strip clubs sparks a media firestorm. Fallis combines sharp social observation with his trademark Canadian humour in a story about gender, assumptions, online fame, and trying to do the right thing.

Paperback, Very Good