Everything Happens to Me

WINNER of the 2025 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Humor/Comedy

This episodic novel chronicles the trials and tribulations of Peter Cherches, an obscure Brooklyn writer who suffers the slings and arrows of outrageous tormentors, most notably his next-door neighbor. Cherches's world is overrun with doppelgängers, doppelgängers' doppelgängers, malevolent technology, masks, doubts, and unreliable mirrors. Think of this as a kinder and gentler Book of Job, with New York attitude and borscht belt humor, as well as echoes of Kafka, Borges, and Serling. Rarely has one man's misery been so much fun.

Author: Peter Cherches
Publisher: Pelekinesis
Published: 09/12/2024
Pages: 218
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781949790887

About the Author
Cherches, Peter: - Called "one of the innovators of the short short story" by Publishers Weekly, Peter Cherches is a writer, singer and lyricist. Over the past 40 years his writing, both fiction and nonfiction, has appeared in over 100 magazines, anthologies and websites. His first recording as a jazz vocalist, Mercerized! Songs of Johnny Mercer, was released in 2016. Pelekinesis has previously released three collections of his short fiction, most recently Whistler's Mother's Son. Of his 2013 book Lift Your Right Arm, Billy Collins suggested, "To Gödel, Escher and Bach we might consider adding Peter Cherches." Cherches is a native of Brooklyn, New York.

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