The Many Fentanyl Addicted Wraiths of Sault Sainte Marie

I took the second pill. Some relief but not what Id anticipated. I took the third overdosed and that was it for me as a corporeal living and breathing human being upon this too sad earth. So succumbs thirty-year-old unemployed writer and hopeless romantic Tom Astaire to an overdose in the opening pages of Michael Sauves newest novel-a bizarrely upbeat romp through the horrors of being phantasmal OxyContin-addicted and trapped in the post-industrial blight of small-town Ontario. As nineteenth-century specters like the historian Sir Edward Capp insist on Sault Sainte Maries glorious past Tom and his fellow wraiths plot to avenge their border towns full-blown opioid crisis and unwittingly unleash a chain of apocalyptic supernatural events that leads to imminent geological disaster and the calamitous ascendancy of a cretinous neo-Nazi group called the Titans of Thor. With its surreally deadpan depiction of a society at rock bottom The Many Fentanyl Addicted Wraiths of Sault Sainte Marie is a startling and exuberant effusion on nostalgia memory and the hopes that outlive us.