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Taxi! is a 1975 novel published by Vancouver-based author and activist Helen Potrebenko.

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Taxi! was published by an independent left-wing publishing house, New Star Books in 1975. The book was not reviewed in any of the major newspapers and magazines of the time, and found little by way of readership. However, the book was published again in 1989, this time by Lazara Press, and found some uptake building on Potrebenko's own rising fame in the labor, feminist, and working-class circles within the city.

The book did not find much of a readership at the time, but, found acceptance when it was re-published in 1989, and again in 2009. Per an article in The Globe and Mail, Modern Times Bookstore Collective, a bookstore based in Mission District, San Francisco, known for its radical politics, had a sign outside the store telling its customers that if there was only one book that they read in 1975, it had to be Taxi!.

Taxi! has been described as an early example of Canadian postmodernism literature, with the city being considered the canvas for the protagonist Shannon to navigate and assert her identity.