Praise for Strube's previous novels:
Smart, eccentric prose.--The New York Times
Strube's comic sense is like a perfectly mixed martini: exceedingly dry
and potent.--The Toronto Star
Milo doesn't quite have it together. His acting career has stalled. His
girlfriend dumped him. His miserable father has vanished. And Pablo and
Wallace--and then Wallace's mother--seem to have moved in to his house.
The only person Milo likes is Robertson, the autistic eleven-year-old
next door. So when Robertson gets bullied, Milo is finally spurred to
action. Milo being Milo, though, even his best intentions go awry, and
soon Robertson's dad is in the hospital, Milo's lost in the woods during
an acting experiment and Gustaw, his dad, may have returned from the
dead via reality TV.
Cordelia Strube's most recent novel Lemon, her eighth, was
longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Trillium Award.