? "Consistently minimalist and nostalgic but also variously touching, hilarious, and sad." -- Booklist Ben is a performance artist about to enter his forties. His father and mother are both dead, and his brother, Jake, is a lousy source of information. So when he begins to struggle with a particularly nagging memory, he doesn't know where to turn. The memory: the assassination -- by his mother -- of a prominent neo-Nazi. In a non-chronological montage of memories, Ben travels back and forth through the events of his ...
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? "Consistently minimalist and nostalgic but also variously touching, hilarious, and sad." -- Booklist Ben is a performance artist about to enter his forties. His father and mother are both dead, and his brother, Jake, is a lousy source of information. So when he begins to struggle with a particularly nagging memory, he doesn't know where to turn. The memory: the assassination -- by his mother -- of a prominent neo-Nazi. In a non-chronological montage of memories, Ben travels back and forth through the events of his life, some of which seemed trivial at the time but are important now: his childhood summers at a cottage in central Ontario, his teenage years in a Toronto suburb, his disastrous university career, the calamity that precipitated his brother's institutionalization. Stuart Ross's first novel is a blend of suburban realism and out-of-body surrealism.
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