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Johnny Delivers roundhouse-kicks the Johnnyverse up a notch. You don’t have to have read Wayne Ng's previous book Letters From Johnny to appreciate it, but you’ll want to. Same dysfunctional family life in Toronto’s Chinese community in the 70s, new levels of trouble, with Bruce Lee tagging in for Dave Keon as Johnny’s fantasy ally. As always, Wayne has a deep, sympathetic insight into unsettled lives.
Eighteen-year-old Johnny Wong's dead-end life consists of delivering Chinese food and holding his chaotic family together in Toronto. When his sweet but treacherous Auntie, the mahjong queen, calls in their family debt, he fears the family will lose the Red Pagoda restaurant and break apart.
Invoking the spirit of Bruce Lee and in cahoots with his stoner friend Barry, Johnny tries to save his family by taking up a life of crime delivering weed with a side of egg rolls. He chases his first love, but his hands are already full with his emotionally distant mother, his dream-crushing father, and…
Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!
On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…
Austin is living in a former mop factory when an eyeless street cat adopts him. Then it dies. Then shit gets weird. Sara Flemington’s novel R.I.P. Scoot has a sense of humour so dry it’d snap if you stepped on it. So I don’t recommend that. But I do recommend the book. Very much.
Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest and Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time meet The Big Lebowski in this literary mystery that asks us to examine what stories, real or fiction, become the metaphors we use for working through our own challenges and uncertainties.
Twentysomething Austin lives alone in a crumbling office-turned-studio apartment of a former mops, brushes and brooms factory in Toronto. After a deformed and lice-ridden cat turns up at his door, then abruptly dies three weeks later, Austin begins to find frightening coincidences connecting him to a squatter living in his local Walmart, a…
