Winner of the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize!Finalistin the Trade Non-Fiction Award at the 2018 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!Finalistin the Cover Design Award at the 2018 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!
In a cityknown for wealth and prosperity, the divide between haves and have-nots israrely clearer than on moving day, when those two worlds come together inintimate fashion. Violent ex-cons and drug addicts are invited into spacioushomes, entrusted with the care and transport of the possessions of the upperclasses—a unique bridging of two normally segregatedworlds.
Darwin’s Moving is an intriguingand affecting exploration of class divides by a journalist and former mover.Taylor Lambert takes us behind the scenes of a familiar industry that is almostcompletely undocumented in Canadian literature to reveal the cycles of povertyand addiction that ensnare its workers. This is the Other Calgary, a worldpopulated by transient men and women struggling to survive in a boomtown'sshadow.
