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A literary fantasia chronicling one man's quest to understand his father and himself—a comic, psychedelic novel from the award-winning author of The Hundred Brothers Lost in the house he grew up in, haunted by the ghost of his younger sister and his strange, cruel parents, and with the love of...

Margot is the child of renowned musicians and the product of a particularly punky upbringing. Burnt-out from the burden of expectation and the bad end of the worst relationship yet, she leaves New York and heads to to the Pacific Northwest. She's seeking to escape both the eyes of the world and the echoing voice of that last bad man. But a chance encounter with a dubious doctor in a graveyard, and the discovery of a dozen old film reels, opens the door to a study of both the peculiarities of her body and the absurdities of her famous family.

Thoroughly absurd and yet all-too-real, My Way to Canossa follows four journeys that re-imagine the Middle Ages amid the political and technological changes of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. It isn't an historical novel. It's an exploration of how the present uses the past.

The Earth is my Ant Farm, The Creational School gave it to me but I'm a bit bored with it now. A bigger boy threw a rock at it in the classroom and wiped out all my dinosaurs, I liked them. Now I'm stuck with the ants and they like to multiply. I have a favourite Ant, his name is Derek. This is about him, he likes to travel. He doesn't know how but I will tell him one day.

Told with biting humor, brutal honesty, and moments of absurd laughter, Why Is My Bra Still On? is a darkly comedic, deeply emotional novel about friendship, loyalty, and what it really means to be family.