If You Lived Here You'd Already be Home

These stories were my kind of stories--a little weird and magical and bittersweet. --Roxane Gay New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist and Hunger. A middle-aged masochist in love with a comatose man. A gay birthday clown lamenting the loss of his beloved dog. An amateur veterinarian keeping watch over his suicidal daughter. And a bikini model with a barnacle stuck to her butt cheek. These are just a few of the characters who populate the quirky offbeat world of If You Lived Here Youd Already Be Home a world that feels at once alien and strangely familiar.. In these twenty-one brief funny stories John Jodzio documents his characters disappointment frustration and longing for a home that seems forever out of reach. By turns bleak and hopeful cruel and tender this is an exciting literary debut by a writer to watch a writer with a unique and compelling voice.. John Jodzio is the best kind of modern fiction writer: a thematic traditionalist who feels totally new. Chuck Klosterman New York Times bestselling author