The stories included in Andrew Hood’s sophomore collection are beautiful, gross, funny, and personal. The Cloaca is a train wreck of awesomeness. It’s your high school gym coach, drunk and dishing dirt on all the other teachers on the crosstown bus-a stomach-turning spectacle that’ll make you laugh out loud now, feel bad later. You won’t be able to look away for an instant.

Andrew Hood is an award-winning author of short fiction, and a rad dude. Both of his works of fiction, The Cloaca (Invisible Publishing) and Pardon Our Monsters (Véhicule), received wide praise, winning him multiple accolades, including the Danuta Gleed Award. Hood lives in Guelph, Ontario.

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• Winner, Expozine Alternative Press Award

"Hood finds some impossible way to marry the deadpan pessimism of Raymond Carver with the humour of South Park."—Broken Pencil

“Andrew Hood illuminates the concerns of his generation with fearless clarity.”—Winnipeg Review

“Hood’s prose is workmanlike but effective; there are no pyrotechnics here, just good stories, well told.”—Quill & Quire

“Hood is joining the ranks of such satirists as Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope, whose view of human culture and behaviour always acknowledged the underside of waste and excrement.”—National Post

"Andrew Hood’s narrators are cloaked versions of this bottomless well of his own imaginative, sour voice. And it’s the voice that’s on display at every turn...Some people just see more beauty in ugly things, and he is definitely one of them."—Cult MTL

"This collection of insightful, observant human dramas reveals both the humour and brutality of modern day life. It is also perfectly typeset to be read easily and is overall a handsome volume. I couldn’t put it down."—Expozine Alternative Press Award jury citation

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