Most Perfect Things About People
Most Perfect Things About People
In the mundane desperation of early-1990s southern Ontario, ten-year-old Soccer Beally kills his neighbor with a brick and vanishes without a trace. Over the following decades, his five enigmatic brothers and sisters--stoic, tormented and strangely resilient--scatter across Toronto and its bleak satellite towns as they struggle to reconcile the brutality of everyday life with their fragmented experiences of unbearable and surreal beauty. With twenty-three intricately interwoven stories that piece together the complex ties binding the past to the present, Mark Jordan Manner's debut novel is a searingly honest, uniquely Canadian meditation on identity, memory, and the nature of violence.
Author: Mark Jordan Manner
Publisher: Tailwinds Press Enterprises LLC
Published: 02/01/2017
Pages: 340
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9780996717540
Review Citation(s):
Foreword 04/26/2017