Books tagged: Satire
Explosions
By Mathieu Poulin
Translated by Aleshia Jensen
Mathieu Poulin brings us an action comedy of a novel, starring big-budget, explosion-happy movie director Michael Bay. What if Bay were, against all odds, a misunderstood genius right up there with the likes of Plato, Sartre, and Nietzsche? What if his films were more than just ... Read more
Fatboy Fall Down
By Rabindranath Maharaj
Winner of the 2019 Foreword Indies Silver Medal for Literary Fiction
“Heavy yet rewarding, Maharaj's novel is a reminder that resilience takes many forms — and that most exceed our naming. ” — Kirkus Reviews
A heartrending novel about one man’s search for meaning ... Read more
Fire in the Firefly
By Scott Gardiner
A wicked Richleresque satire about a charismatic advertising executive and the three beautiful women who turn his life upside down.
Julius Roebuck is the creative director of a successful ad agency, husband to the headstrong Anne, and father to three lively children. He is also ... Read more
From Howdy Modi to Modi ki Godi
Every morning Anand and Kabir start work in a run-down tea stall in a poor Delhi neighborhood. Winter, summer, rain or shine. It's the same day in and day out. The shop owner, Sharmaji, is a good man. It is out of kindness that he employs the two boys. He knows Anand is a Dalit ... Read more
In the City of Pigs
By André Forget
A failed musician obsessed with avant-garde art enters a shadowy world where bohemian excess meets the avaricious interests of a real estate cabal.
Alexander Otkazov is finished with Montreal. Having wasted his youth on the love of art, he’s ready for a life of anonymous condo ... Read more
Kerfuffle
By Dorothy Ellen Palmer
Welcome to Blakkat Theatre, home of the improv comedy troupe Kerfuffle!
Please permit us to introduce our Cast of Players:
NELLIE WOLFE: age 28, recent orphan, pregnant disabled avenger and sword thief
ANDY MCLEAN: age 21, redhead, devoted bike rider and aspiring Anarchist
CONSTANZIA ... Read more
Mr. Singh Among the Fugitives
By Stephen Henighan & Stephen Henighan
R.U. Singh has always known he is destined to live the life of an English country squire. After a few false starts, in Bombay, Thunder Bay, and Toronto, he settles into a comfortable existence as a small-town Ontario lawyer, much solicited for the diversity he lends committees ... Read more
Mr. Singh Among the Fugitives
By Stephen Henighan
R.U. Singh has always known he is destined to live the life of an English country squire. After a few false starts, in Bombay, Thunder Bay, and Toronto, he settles into a comfortable existence as a small-town Ontario lawyer, much solicited for the diversity he lends committees ... Read more
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