Milosz

Milo doesn't quite have it all together. His acting career has stalled. His Latvian girlfriend just dumped him. His miserable father has vanished. And Pablo and Wallace – and then Wallace's mother, too – seem to have moved into his house. Really, the only person Milo likes is Robertson, the autistic eleven-year-old who lives next door. So when Robertson gets bullied and his dad moves out, Milo is finally spurred into action. Milo being Milo, though, even his best intentions go awry, and soon Robertson's dad is in the hospital, Milo's lost in the woods during an acting experiment and Gustaw, his dad, may have returned from the dead. '?'A Fall 2012 “Must-Read” … Half the fun of this blackly comic novel is finding out what over-the-top punishment Toronto author Cordelia Strube will subject her hero to next.' &x2013 Toronto Life'Call it a funny novel with unexpected pockets of grief, or a sad novel with a surprising number of good jokes. Either way, the combination is potent; in genetics they call this sort of thing hybrid vigour. [Sam] Lipsyte's book [The Ask] doesn't come close.' – Edmonton Journal'A darkly comedic story of misfits in an ugly world … At its heart, which is huge, Milosz is about progeny, about what tethers us to the world and to each other.' – National Post