One of the CBC's Best Books of the Year. A pregnancy test is taken at a wedding, a bad diagnosis leads a
patient to a surprising outlook, and a civic holiday becomes a dystopian
nightmare. By turns caustic, tender, and creepily hilarious, Sweet
Affliction reveals the frailties, perversions, and resilience of Anna
Leventhal's cast of city-dwellers. Shiftless youths, a compulsive
collector of cigarette butts,...