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Book SynopsisIt's a long way from a basement apartment in a Montreal suburb to a new life on a fictional planet, but that's the destination our unnamed narrator has set his sights on, bringing readers with him on an off-beat and often hilarious journey.
Along the way, he writes poems, buys groceries at the dollar store, and earns minimum wage at a dead-end supermarket job. But not to worry - he is John McClane, he is the ghost of Obi-Wan Kenobi (with a bacteria he's never heard of), he is Justin Timberlake... Meryl Streep... a grumpy George Clooney...In between treatments for his cystic fibrosis and the constant drip-drip-drip of disappointment, he dreams of a new life on Tatouine, where he'll play Super Mario Bros and make sand angels all day. But in the meantime, he'll have to make do with daydreams. Daydreams of normality, daydreams of surreal little catastrophes, daydreams of a better life. On Tatouine.
Trade ReviewI’m still in shock. It’s just incredible. EVERY line in this first novel deserves to be underlined. It’s a book to scribble hearts and stars all over… One thousand stars for this author.” —Claudia Larochelle, arts columnist
"At the end, we want to say: I am Réhel. I am Anakin. I’m a comedian. I’m Yoda reading a book and crying in the bath." —Laurie Bédard,
Spirale magazine
"I read the whole thing without putting it down once, as though I’d just heard from a friend I’d been worrying about." —Véronique Côté, Le Devoir
"A beautiful novel!" —Marie-Louise Arseneault
"There’s no shortage of light in this novel." —4 STARS, Dominic Tardif,
Le Devoir"Jean-Christophe Réhel is one of my big discoveries this year. [...] Uncompromising urban poetry, sometimes violent, sometimes funny, bursting with self-deprecation." —Christian Bégin, Canadian actor & TV personality
"There is a unique and sometimes funny take on an element of the human condition in Jean-Christophe RÉhel’s novel
Tatouine. It is a light read but one that is memorable. And it is certainly one of my favourites of this year." —Steven Buechler,
The Library of Pacific Tranquillity "Jean-Christophe Réhel's
Tatouine is every bit as remarkable as QC Fiction's earlier offerings ... wit and resignation dance cheek-to-cheek." —Marcie McCauley,
Buried In Print
