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-Malagash is a poignant snapshot of the wonder, joy, sorrow, and reckless daring of being alive. With it, Joey Comeau cements his place among Canada's most talented and original writers. I loved this cleverly tender and unforgettable heartbreak of a book and I know you will too. A Monster Calls for a plugged-in age.- -- Courtney Summers, author of This Is Not a Test and All the Rage

Malagash is a poignant snapshot of the wonder, joy, sorrow, and reckless daring of being alive. With it, Joey Comeau cements his place among Canada's most talented and original writers. I loved this cleverly tender and unforgettable heartbreak of a book and I know you will too. A Monster Calls for a plugged-in age. -- Courtney Summers, author of This Is Not a Test and All the Rage Comeau's style is sparse but powerful. . . . Malagash is a darkly humored exploration of death, family, and grief, eloquent despite its short 183 pages, devastating despite its simplicity. Highly recommend. -- BumbleBookBee blog -Malagash is a poignant snapshot of the wonder, joy, sorrow, and reckless daring of being alive. With it, Joey Comeau cements his place among Canada's most talented and original writers. I loved this cleverly tender and unforgettable heartbreak of a book and I know you will too. A Monster Calls for a plugged-in age.- -- Courtney Summers, author of This Is Not a Test and All the Rage Malagash is a poignant snapshot of the wonder, joy, sorrow, and reckless daring of being alive. With it, Joey Comeau cements his place among Canada's most talented and original writers. I loved this cleverly tender and unforgettable heartbreak of a book and I know you will too. A Monster Calls for a plugged-in age. -- Courtney Summers, author of This Is Not a Test and All the Rage Praise for previous works: On Overqualified There have been spoof letter-writing books in the past, like 'The Lazlo Letters' by Don Novello (a.k.a. Father Guido Sarducci) and several that followed. While the protagonist in 'Overqualified' is just as unhinged as his predecessors, he's significantly less giddy. A real story unfolds in these pages, about a departed brother and the sibling left behind. It's sad and fragmented and, in places, funny. This slender epistolary novel is charming. -- Los Angeles Times A collection of wry, clever and demoniacal job-application letters, teeming with knife-edged malice and stomach-tearing hilarity. . . . Overqualified successfully deludes the fear of the faceless corporate entity by empowering the faceless applicant who has nothing to lose except securing a job he or she probably doesn't want. If Comeau's rebel-yell manifesto catches on like old Prometheus's gift did all those years ago, human resources will never be the same again. -- Globe and Mail One of the season's most remarkable books. -- Macleans On One Bloody Thing After Another Canadian author Comeau, best known for his darkly surreal Web comic, A Softer World, turns his adaptable talents to overt horror in this oddly touching novel of ghosts, friendship, bloody secrets, and family relationships. . . . A staccato structure allows for surprising intricacy in so few pages, and the crescendos of terror are leavened by moments of unexpected humor and warmth. -- Publishers Weekly The tone is poignant, sometimes wistful, and deadpan funny . . . The novel is more eccentric than gory, and what's really shocking about it is that all the mayhem is finally about family ties, both severed and reconnected. -- Booklist On The Complete Lockpick Pornography [Joey] has a well-deserved reputation for cheerfully deranged work, borne out by this pair of thematically linked stories. -- Publisher's Weekly Comeau is unmistakably a provocateur, though his literary ambitions extend beyond simple provocation... The Complete Lockpick Pornography, a collection of two thematically linked novellas, is both gleefully and constructively subversive. -- Winnipeg Review

Known primarily for darkly comic novels and the webcomic A Softer World, Comeau effortlessly switches gears to expose the trauma, heartbreak, and humor in loss. . . an immensely touching tribute to a very human struggle with mortality. -- Publishers Weekly Malagash is a poignant snapshot of the wonder, joy, sorrow, and reckless daring of being alive. With it, Joey Comeau cements his place among Canada's most talented and original writers. I loved this cleverly tender and unforgettable heartbreak of a book and I know you will too. A Monster Calls for a plugged-in age. -- Courtney Summers, author of This Is Not a Test and All the Rage Comeau's style is sparse but powerful. . . . Malagash is a darkly humored exploration of death, family, and grief, eloquent despite its short 183 pages, devastating despite its simplicity. Highly recommend. -- BumbleBookBee blog Malagash is a poignant snapshot of the wonder, joy, sorrow, and reckless daring of being alive. With it, Joey Comeau cements his place among Canada's most talented and original writers. I loved this cleverly tender and unforgettable heartbreak of a book and I know you will too. A Monster Calls for a plugged-in age. -- Courtney Summers, author of This Is Not a Test and All the Rage Comeau's style is sparse but powerful. . . . Malagash is a darkly humored exploration of death, family, and grief, eloquent despite its short 183 pages, devastating despite its simplicity. Highly recommend. -- BumbleBookBee blog -Malagash is a poignant snapshot of the wonder, joy, sorrow, and reckless daring of being alive. With it, Joey Comeau cements his place among Canada's most talented and original writers. I loved this cleverly tender and unforgettable heartbreak of a book and I know you will too. A Monster Calls for a plugged-in age.- -- Courtney Summers, author of This Is Not a Test and All the Rage Malagash is a poignant snapshot of the wonder, joy, sorrow, and reckless daring of being alive. With it, Joey Comeau cements his place among Canada's most talented and original writers. I loved this cleverly tender and unforgettable heartbreak of a book and I know you will too. A Monster Calls for a plugged-in age. -- Courtney Summers, author of This Is Not a Test and All the Rage Praise for previous works: On Overqualified There have been spoof letter-writing books in the past, like 'The Lazlo Letters' by Don Novello (a.k.a. Father Guido Sarducci) and several that followed. While the protagonist in 'Overqualified' is just as unhinged as his predecessors, he's significantly less giddy. A real story unfolds in these pages, about a departed brother and the sibling left behind. It's sad and fragmented and, in places, funny. This slender epistolary novel is charming. -- Los Angeles Times A collection of wry, clever and demoniacal job-application letters, teeming with knife-edged malice and stomach-tearing hilarity. . . . Overqualified successfully deludes the fear of the faceless corporate entity by empowering the faceless applicant who has nothing to lose except securing a job he or she probably doesn't want. If Comeau's rebel-yell manifesto catches on like old Prometheus's gift did all those years ago, human resources will never be the same again. -- Globe and Mail One of the season's most remarkable books. -- Macleans On One Bloody Thing After Another Canadian author Comeau, best known for his darkly surreal Web comic, A Softer World, turns his adaptable talents to overt horror in this oddly touching novel of ghosts, friendship, bloody secrets, and family relationships. . . . A staccato structure allows for surprising intricacy in so few pages, and the crescendos of terror are leavened by moments of unexpected humor and warmth. -- Publishers Weekly The tone is poignant, sometimes wistful, and deadpan funny . . . The novel is more eccentric than gory, and what's really shocking about it is that all the mayhem is finally about family ties, both severed and reconnected. -- Booklist On The Complete Lockpick Pornography [Joey] has a well-deserved reputation for cheerfully deranged work, borne out by this pair of thematically linked stories. -- Publisher's Weekly Comeau is unmistakably a provocateur, though his literary ambitions extend beyond simple provocation... The Complete Lockpick Pornography, a collection of two thematically linked novellas, is both gleefully and constructively subversive. -- Winnipeg Review

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Joey Comeau is the author of four novels and the webcomic A Softer World. His work has been nominated for the ReLit and Shirley Jackson awards, has appeared in the Best American Non-Required Reading and the Guardian, has been profiled in Rolling Stone, and has recently been translated into French, Spanish, Turkish, and German. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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