Adeen builds a family at the Complex Arms but her own family, especially her husband Frosty, well that's not so good. And then things start to spin out at the apartments. An interesting read, Thanks to netgalley for the ARC.

Dnf - Did not finish. I will not be reading this novel. I did not connect with the writing style. Thank you, netgalley for the early copy.

Author #Dolly Dennis is an award-winning playwright, the author of novel ‘Loddy-Dah, and a celebrated visual artist.Her new book ‘#The Complex Arms’ is a little more serious. But life as stated is just one disaster after another.
Adeen is the resident manager of the Complex.With no help from her deadbeat husband, Frosty, who sees himself as the next big thing in Nashville, she struggles.But when a natural disaster hits, the lives of the Complex Arm’s residents will never be the same.

Remember the movie "Singles"? People living in an apartment building in Seattle, just living life? This is kind of like that but....not really.

Adeen and her husband Frosty manage the Complex Arms, an apartment building in Alberta Canada. Frosty is a ...lazy loaf and Adeen does most of the work on the complex. She is a lonely - Frosty often leaving her and her caretaking of her daughter. In an effort to solve this loneliness, she befriends the tenants - fulfilling missing pieces of her life as well as theirs.

This is a feel good book about a lonely woman and the community that she builds around her.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for the opportunity to read and review this book

First of all, I would like to thank NetGalley and Dundurn Press for the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.
The story is set in 1987 in Alberta Canada and also 2007, still in Alberta. The primary characters are Adeen Whitlaw and her husband Frosty. They are the managers of an apartment complex called the Complex Arms. Frosty is a wannabe poet and cowboy and somewhat of a ladies man. Adeen does most of the work of running the complex while Frosty runs off on spurts of drinking. Adeen also has a daughter who is disabled from a previous relationship and she is a handful for Adeen. In an effort to deal with the emotions of raising her daughter and managing the apartments with Frosty’s on again, off again help, Adeen befriends the tenants in her apartment and gets to know them as family. She loves to help others and it makes her feel needed and fulfilled. But, as time goes on, and things happen that are out of Adeen’s control, she loses her ability to manage her life as before. The story continues, examining the effects of the different incidents on Adeen.
I really enjoyed this book and felt drawn to the characters despite their faults and at times tedious behavior. They felt like real people who were just going through life and dealing with it the only way they knew how. After I finished the book, I kept wondering what they were up to as though they had become my friends.