Awards

• Nominated for Best Book Design at the Alberta Book Publishing Awards 2018 (Canada)
• Winner of Best Trade Non-Fiction at the Alberta Book Publishing Awards 2018 (Canada)

Overview

This book introduces readers to the colourful characters who populate the furniture moving trade, a male-dominated world of labour with relatively high pay and no need for education of any sort. Movers have a unique window into the private spaces of the city as they perform their difficult and delicate job inside all manner of homes, from government-subsidised housing developments to multi-million dollar McMansions. Taylor Lambert intriguingly explores class and work in a city that would rather focus on the wealth and prosperity brought to it by the oil and gas industry. Darwins Moving shows us the Other Calgary, a world populated by transient men and women struggling to survive in a boomtowns shadow.

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With a clear-eyed Lambert behind the wheel, Darwin's Moving gives you a full tour of the class divide bubbling up through a rapidly suburbanizing city. In compassionate and concise prose, Lambert delves into the battered histories of the men around him, revealing stories full of joy, rage, fear, and abandonment. Open it up and get in the truck. Andrew F. Sullivan, author of Waste and All We Want is Everything With humour and unwavering journalism, Taylor Lambert has written an endearing tribute that lifts up the working class men who help us build a home. For once, we're invited into the movers' messy lives, to see their hopes and dreams on the mantle, and the classism in the closet. Oman Mouallem, co-author of Inside the Inferno

"Praise for Darwin's Moving ""With humour and unwavering journalism, Taylor Lambert has written an endearing tribute that lifts up the working class men who help us build a home. For once, we're invited into the movers' messy lives, to see their hopes and dreams on the mantle, and the classism in the closet."" Omar Mouallem, co-author of Inside the Inferno ""With a clear-eyed Lambert behind the wheel, Darwin's Moving gives you a full tour of the class divide bubbling up through a rapidly suburbanizing city. In compassionate and concise prose, Lambert delves into the battered histories of the men around him, revealing stories full of joy, rage, fear, and abandonment. Open it up and get in the truck."" Andrew F. Sullivan, author of All We Want is Everything ""...the collision of rich and poor is made starkly evident."" Quill & Quire ""...an illuminating trip to a realm of which we're only dimly aware. Bonus: You'll learn how to pack a van good and tight."" Sarah Murdoch, Toronto Star ""Darwin's Moving is about Calgary but it's a larger story, too, about the ways Darwin's Moving is not unique, about class and the often-transient men tasked with moving our homes."" Jade Colbert, The Globe and Mail ""Lambert has shed light on a corner of the Canadian working world few even think about. The ghost of Orwell approves."" Morley Walker, Winnipeg Free Press ""You'll never look at a moving truck the same way again."" Steven Sandor, Avenue Edmonton"

With a clear-eyed Lambert behind the wheel, Darwin's Moving gives you a full tour of the class divide bubbling up through a rapidly suburbanizing city. In compassionate and concise prose, Lambert delves into the battered histories of the men around him, revealing stories full of joy, rage, fear, and abandonment. Open it up and get in the truck. Andrew F. Sullivan, author of Waste and All We Want is Everything With humour and unwavering journalism, Taylor Lambert has written an endearing tribute that lifts up the working class men who help us build a home. For once, we're invited into the movers' messy lives, to see their hopes and dreams on the mantle, and the classism in the closet. Oman Mouallem, co-author of Inside the Inferno

Author Information

Taylor Lambert was born in Regina, Saskatchewan and eventually settled in Calgary, Alberta. He is a journalist who has published three previous books, including Leaving Moose Jaw and the Calgary bestseller Rising: Stories of the 2013 Alberta Flood. To pay for tuition and later to offset his freelance writing, Taylor worked moving furniture, which led to the idea to write a book centred on the moving industry. Taylor currently resides in Calgary.

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