It's a long way from a basement apartment in a Montreal suburb to a new life on a fictional planet, but that's the destination our unnamed narrator has set his sights on, bringing readers with him on an off-beat and often hilarious journey. Along the way, he writes poems, buys groceries at the dollar store, and earns minimum wage at a dead-end supermarket job. In between treatments for his cystic fibrosis and the constant drip-drip-drip of disappointment, he dreams of a new life on Tatouine, where he'll play Super Mario Bros and make sand angels all day. But in the meantime, he'll have to make do with daydreams of a better life, in which he is John McClane, he is the ghost of Obi-Wan Kenobi (with a bacteria he's never heard of), he is Justin Timberlake... Meryl Streep... a grumpy George Clooney...

Tatouine

Literature & Fiction

Réhel, Jean-Christophe

Literary

QC Fiction

Louis, a young queer man, lives in Pointe-aux-Trembles, in Montreal' s east end, with his rap-obsessed, schizophrenic brother and their terminally ill father. While working at a Tim Horton' s, Louis dreams of becoming a stand-up comedian. Delivered in short, addictive chapters, All Kidding Aside deftly juggles themes of love, class, and grief with poetic mockery and spare, electric banter.

All Kidding Aside (Qc Fiction)

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Tatouine

All Kidding Aside (Qc Fiction)