BookThug invites you to celebrate the Toronto launch of Job Shadowing, the debut novel by Malcolm Sutton.

When: Tuesday May 3, 2016

Where: Type Books

Address: 883 Queen St, Toronto

Time: 7-9 pm

Refreshments will be served.

All are welcome!

Job Shadowing is a novel of our 20th-century desires torn asunder by the new millennium. An unemployed man, losing his ability to imagine a future self, disappears into the shadow world of an ambitious millennial. His wife, an idealistic artist at the turning point of her career, falls deeper and deeper into the gravitational field of her ultra-wealthy employer.

Job Shadowing is a work of pure, energizing imagination that speaks directly to our times. As we hang on through each plausible yet impossible turn, the parallel worlds Malcolm Sutton effortlessly creates pull us ever closer to the underlying currents and desires that make the personal political, then twist back around to become deeply personal once again. A book for our shadow-generation and, at the same time, a work of literature that just might subtly help us break free. Jacob Wren, author of Polyamorous Love Song and Rich and Poor

A young married couple each experiences the phenomenon of union on different continents, across gender and class and the impossibility of reunion after their duplicitous adventures. A smooth art thriller in the tradition of Bolao, Job Shadowing meddles with corporate culture, dying domesticity and the living, breathing life of the alienated worker. Malcolm Suttons work is stimulating and stand-alone. Tamara Faith Berger, Believer Book Awardwinning author of Maidenhead