Most Perfect Things About People

In the mundane desperation of early-1990s southern Ontario ten-year-old Soccer Beally kills his neighbor with a brick and vanishes without a trace. Over the following decades his five enigmatic brothers and sisters--stoic tormented and strangely resilient--scatter across Toronto and its bleak satellite towns as they struggle to reconcile the brutality of everyday life with their fragmented experiences of unbearable and surreal beauty. ​With twenty-three intricately interwoven stories that piece together the complex ties binding the past to the present Mark Jordan Manners debut novel is a searingly honest uniquely Canadian meditation on identity memory and the nature of violence.