Description:
Lee Gaik Wah, Stephen Higdon, and Caroline Melançon are long-missing public servants known, at the Fund, as Lost Annuitants. Art school graduate Del Charbonneau is the pension clerk obsessed with tracking them down. Wry, warm, and wonderfully strange, The Secret Lives of Public Servants interweaves the past and present of four unforgettable characters amidst the humorous depiction and behind-the- scenes goings-on of a large government office.
A meditation on working for a living, the power of the creative imagination, and the bonds that sustain us.
Review Quotes:
'Darkly hilarious and unexpectedly poignant, The Secret Lives of Public Servants skewers bureaucracy while unearthing the tangled lives behind the paperwork. With sharp wit and keen insight, Anne Lévesque shines a compassionate and often hilarious light on her cast of disaffected functionaries and aging idealists as they navigate career, regret, and reinvention. A wickedly smart, slyly subversive read.'
Tom Ryan, author
The Treasure Hunters Club