![]() ![]() ![]() Sammie does have a love interest in the person of Drew, a nice but awkward, clean-living young man. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ![]() “No one can read Sam,” his daughter says. “I’m a gold-plated sucker.” Her father is a different story. It is too easy for other people to read her, for one thing. She knows it will be difficult enough to obtain his approval working a hustle. When she makes a successful maneuver in her driver’s test, she can only wish that Sam were there to behold it and take pride in his kid. She yearns to be with her father to participate in the various hustles of this sharply dressed con artist working the breadth of the continent. The latter is particularly painful for the 16-year-old Sammie. You can’t blame the suicide attempts of Marlene, Sammie’s mom, on Burnaby, for example, or the chronic absence of her father Sam Bell. Dreary though it may be, it’s not the real source of Sammie’s problems. The suburb of Burnaby, on the other hand, distinctly lacked charm. ![]() I lived in Vancouver for a few years and savoured the delights of English Bay, False Creek, Stanley Park and so on. Her goal in life, she informs the reader, is to “get the hell out of Burnaby.” A person like me, she says, should live downtown. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. ![]()
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