“Jeremy Colangelo’s brilliant debut is rich with the strange wonder that is life, story, culture and imagination. These stories, alive to possibility, are infused with empathy, curiosity and compassion for the hoping, imaginative, emotional and creative lives we lead. Energizing and inspiring in their vision, poetry and imagination, they pose existential and philosophical questions even as they intrigue and delight. I couldn’t anticipate what was around the next corner within each tale and from story to story, couldn’t guess what surprising, entertaining and beguiling leaps I would encounter. Read this book and prepare for–actually, you can’t be prepared for this.” ~ Gary Barwin, author of Yiddish for Pirates and winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour