Synopses & Reviews
Toronto's CN Tower has fallen into the lake. The city is crowdedj with refugees from the US. Michael and Ruth Racco's dad has, in a rash of road rage, perpetrated the Backhoe Massacre. After dodging a torrent of rubber bullets, little eight-year-old Rani Vishnu has started going grey. And, in the middle of it all, Jimmy Hardcastle has, in the fountain of a suburban mall, walked on water.
As helicopters chop the air over Toronto and a paranoid America slides into fascism, kids from south of the border collide with kids north of the border and, over lattes, ruminate on new possibilities.
Your Secrets Sleep With Me is a frenetic, ruthlessly hilarious critique of power & politics. Brilliant, absurd, incisive and fun, this caffeinated novel will take you on a doomed search for the place where you end and everthing else begins. But, shhh you will not be alone.
Review
"Anyone who gets queasy wondering 'Is this all there is?' might do well to tear a pocket into their coat big enough for this book. It's about a world much like ours but where the body is really real, the city is really real, friends see and affect each other, and everyone is always thinking. It's a version of things completely at odds with the inert portrait of life we're used to." Sheila Heti
Synopsis
The first novel by the acclaimed play wright is a frenetic, magic-realist look at a parallel-universe Toronto, where the CN Tower has fallen into Lake Ontario, creating a footbridge via which a flood of refugees stream into Canada from the U.S., fomenting political chaos.
Synopsis
Toronto's CN Tower has fallen into the lake. The city is crowded with refugees from the US. Michael and Ruth Racco's dad has, in a rash of road rage, perpetrated the Backhoe Massacre. And, in the middle of it all, little Jimmy Hardcastle has, in the fountain of a suburban mall, walked on water. As helicopters chop the air over Toronto and a paranoid America slides into fascism, kids from south of the border collide with kids from north of the border and, over lattes, ruminate on new possibilities. Your Secrets Sleep With Me is a frenetic, ruthlessly hilarious critique of power and politics. Brilliant, absurd, incisive and fun, this caffeinated novel will take you on a doomed search for the place where you end and everything else begins. But you will not be alone. Shhh. Don't worry. Your secrets sleep with us.
Synopsis
Fiction. YOUR SECRETS SLEEP WITH ME is a frenetic, ruthlessly hilarious critique of power and politics. Brilliant, absurd, incisive and fun, this caffeinated novel will take you on a doomed search for the place where you end and everything else begins. "When I think about Darren, I remember the fevers I had as a child, fevers in which things would come back to me, over and over. There's something about his work that taps into the most intimate moments in your conversation with yourself ... I feel as close to his work as I feel to my own anxiety, and I'm grateful for a mind so sharp, so nicely tuned, it registers what goes on beneath thinking"--Andre Alexis.