Winner, 20th annual 3-Day Novel-Writing Contest

The Underwood is a poignant tale of a parentless twenty-one-year-old pianist who lands the job of lounge entertainer in a once glorious and elegant establishment. Enter the young Foster Lutz, and the hotel – including the lives of its inhabitants – is set for a spell of splendour and rejuvenation.

A loss-of-innocence novel set in an atmosphere pervaded with nostalgia and a yearning for a bygone era. Holden Caulfield meets Barton Fink.

Praise for The Underwood:

“… another sort of immigrant story … funny and, at the risk of sounding Hollywood, heartwarming. And it’s easy to read more than once.” (Geist)

“this short book is better than many books ten times as long-or that took three years, not three days, to write.” (Books in Canada: The Canadian Review of Books)