The Passion of Saint-Jablonski

<p><strong>Andrew Mondry's brilliant knowing and wildly funny first novel <em>The Passion of Saint-Jablonski</em> is a book for and about America-not the country we want or pretend to have but the one we've got: mad poor rich hustling suffering and trying for it all with a mix of hope and desperation. Mondry is the real deal-like Russell Banks meets Carl Hiaasen. Think of the tender comic songbook of John Prine the dreary kindness of the New England soul and that one friend who kept threatening a move to Florida. A great novel by a great writer.</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>- Dan Bevacqua author of <em>Molly Bit</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong>What happens when the American Dream collides with the internet age and explodes into chaos?</strong></p><p>Stosh Saint-Jablonski a washed-up golf prodigy is stuck in a crumbling Florida condo complex that looks like a failed Disney World attraction. When the power-mad condo president vanishes with the community's money Stosh is thrust into leadership-managing conspiracy theorists wellness grifters and internet prophets who make his old golf buddies look like Nobel laureates.</p><p> </p><p>As summer heat turns brutal so does the madness: crypto schemes masquerade as enlightenment parking lot holy wars erupt and a dating algorithm might be government spyware. Armed with nothing but a nine-iron and his emotional support boar Gator Stosh must hold his fractured community together before his own sanity becomes the next casualty.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Part <em>Catch-22</em> part <em>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas</em> this merciless satire skewers our extremely online culture with dark wit.</strong> One man's desperate attempt to maintain order becomes every modern person's battle to stay grounded in an unhinged world.</p><p> </p><p><strong>If you've ever scrolled until reality bent this book will feel too real and too funny to put down.</strong></p>