I Met Death & Sex Through My Friend, Tom Meuley
By (Author) Thom Vernon
Guernica Editions,Canada
Guernica Editions,Canada
8th August 2024
Canada
General
Fiction
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
Paperback
350
Width 127mm, Height 203mm, Spine 30mm
512g
In this dark comedy taking place over twenty-four hours, a blizzard pummels Toronto as a beloved high school teacher coerces his teenage student to assist in his violent suicide forcing the student, his best friend, the friend's bulimic mom, and a down-low cop to outrun each other, the storm, and the ghosts haunting them. I Met Death & Sex Through My Friend, Tom Meuley is a breathtaking and hilarious novel about the lengths people will take to erase themselves in order to matter.
Them Vernon is a writer, actor, and academic. After training in Chicago, he went on to act in various Hollywood productions, including The Fugitive,Seinfeld, and General Hospital. . He recently appeared inSaving Hope, Murdoch Mysteries, Killjoysand elsewhere. Vernon is a Vanier doctoral candidate in English-Creative Writing at the University of New Brunswick. His most recent publications include the novelThe Drifts(Coach House, 2010). An advocate for under-served youth & adults, he co-foundedArts Expand, a Los Angeles-based arts education initiative.He contributes to blogs, including American Refugee, Notes on Arts Educations, Words Matter, and Huffington Post. He moved from the States to Toronto as a queer refugee with his partner, Vajdon.