All Kidding Aside

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By (author): Jean-Christophe Réhel

Louis, a young queer man, lives in Pointe-aux-Trembles, in Montreal’s east end, with his rap-obsessed, schizophrenic brother and their terminally ill father. While working at a Tim Horton’s, Louis dreams of becoming a stand-up comedian.

Delivered in short, addictive chapters, All Kidding Aside deftly juggles themes of love, class, and grief with poetic mockery and spare, electric banter.

AUTHOR

Jean-Christophe Réhel

Jean-Christophe Réhel’s début novel Ce qu?on respire sur Tatouine won Quebec’s prestigious Prix littéraire des collégiens. It is his only novel to be translated into English so far; he is busy writing a second. Réhel is also the author of five poetry collections. He lives in Montreal.

Reviews

All Kidding Aside takes its readers on a journey into a world woven with turbulent adventures offering a deep and captivating exploration of brotherly love precarity and grief Alice Laforcele Nouvelliste

In JeanChristophe Rhels love letter to comedy the poet and screenwriter wrestles with themes that challenge yet never dip into pity The winner of the Prix littraire des collgiens celebrates the beauty the everyday and laughs about itRadioCanada

Rhel pulls us into a rather gloomy universe of messy bedrooms bootslopped kitchen floors soulless Timbits objects of thoughtless gluttony chunks of sandwich scattered in the street carrots jammed into the bottom of a snowmans belly But in the midst of all this baseness as Brassens might say we witness real and touching human connections Franois LavalleNuit Blanche

Reviews ofTatouine

A joy to read Shelagh Rogers CBCsThe Next Chapter

A novel of inventive selfdeprecating humour Jade ColbertThe Globe and Mail