Daily Life

A woman finds herself called for jury duty in a murder trial. She feels she has to serve, but also has a fistful of family problems to juggle.

On her way to the courthouse, the woman stumbles across her half-brother Bob, back to panhandling in downtown Toronto. The woman takes him home to the newly-empty nest she shares with her husband.

The three of them are soon joined by her 22-year-old activist daughter, Raine, and Raine's boyfriend, Mac. Raine is pregnant, Mac newly-diagnosed with MS.

If that isn't enough, Bob's attempt to go off alcohol cold-turkey lands him in the emergency ward. And our narrator draws unwanted attention from the families of the accused murderers at the trial.

Daily Life is a post-modernist mash-up of author Lesley Krueger’s real-life journeys into the justice system and the struggles of a fictional family she created. It originally appeared as a popular story told serially on her blog, and is now published as an e-book.