If you ever feel youre in the mood for something completely absurd out of this world but in it something that will make you laugh wonder what the heck is going on and reflect on the authors wild imagination Dirty Birds is your book

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- Naomi
- Consumed by Ink

"Dirty Birds is absurd and tender familiar and bizarre and completely unforgettable"
- Jean Graham
- The Northeast Avalon Times

"This book would make a great Canadian film starring Michael Cera Refreshingly backlit with the nostalgia of Obama era planet Earth riffing on a myriad of contemporary themes including intergenerational tensions and anxieties global economic frailty and the pursuit of young desire Dirty Birds is the perfect misfit read for your next layaway or when youre down to your last shot of whisky It provides days worth of warm weird feelings"
- Nathaniel G Moore
- Atlantic Books Today

"Dirty Birds is a whipsmart structurally coherent romp that dresses its satire in the weeds of comic mayhem"
- Richard Cumyn
- The Fiddlehead

"Satirical clever unrestrained and funny Dirty Birds is a great read"
- Atlantic Book Reviews
- Haley Reads Books

"Dirty Birds is an absurd novel about absurd subcultures of artists grad students and adultescents that author Morgan Murray explores with both laughoutloud lunacy and scathing insight"
- Ian Rogers
- Shrapnel Magazine

"Canadians rejoice Our Vonnegut has finally arrived Morgan Murrays debut is a great brawling sprawling muscular glory of a story Funny dark and wholly original"
- Will Ferguson winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize
- Ltd Radio

"One of the most fun and dynamic aspects of the book is Morgans facility with different dialogues These include but are not limited to the matrix of the prairie junior hockey structure the nonstop conversation of a Newfoundland taxi driver academic papers police files and most prominently Miltons poetry These are often decoded andor annotated in footnotes a comedic amplification thats an effective and refreshing device in this fiction Theres work and care in the writing the experiences however foolish feel earned At the same time its kinetic the words like birds take flight"
- Joan Sullivan
- The Telegram

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Dirty Birds one of the funniest things Ive read since I took home my grade 4 report card

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- DR The Book Guy
- Ltd Radio

"Morgan Murrays Dirty Birds is the delightful literary hoser middle ground between A Series Of Unfortunate Events and Jackass The story of Milton Ontarios poetic aspirations spans over 500 nonsensical pages and even though you wont understand a word Noddy or Georgette or Jerry or Gerry is saying I promise you wont be bored this is an impressive debut novel that knows when to joke and when to deliver some actually poetic inner monologue I cant wait to see what Murray comes up with next"
- Joan Sullivan
- Haley Reads Books

"The narrative voice in Dirty Birds reminds me a bit of the dry comic you find reading The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy only this unfortunate protagonist named Milton Ontario not to be confused with Milton Ontario journeys from Bellybutton Saskatchewan to live in a dirty closet he found on Craigslist dans le metropolis of Montreal All so he can be a poet like his hero Leonard Cohen Morgan Murray fills his pages with dialogue spoken in hilarious Canadian vernacular something that so rarely meets the page in popular fiction interspersed with his own black and white illustrations and the most epic footnotes detailing facts from Canadas history the way you wish you had heard them in high school"
- Ian Rogers
- More Books Than Days

"ltdivgtA vast fantastic and original book not to mention utterly hilarious The kind of book youll devour and then wish you hadnt read it so quickly but happily you can start it all over again Definitely one of my top ten books of 2020
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ltdivgtltdivgtI loved this Make the world bigger by your being in it the way you pour yourself out into the world to quench anothers thirst the way you exist and the way you persist Words to live by ltdivgt"
- Jean Graham
- The Minerva Reader