COMING SOON

A darkly comic novel about family, ambition, mortality and the inconvenient fact that nobody gets to choose their inheritance.

Jeff Mackenzie was born in Woodstock in 1969 and raised by recovering hippies on Canada’s East Coast. He spent three decades reinventing himself, believing he’d finally made it as an upwardly mobile Toronto advertising executive. Then he decides to get married. When his Toronto-born and raised fiancée and her conservative, status-conscious family descend on Nova Scotia for Christmas with his slightly bonkers family, just as Y2K existential dread threatens, Jeff’s carefully constructed worlds collide. It is 1999, and everyone was worried about the future. Jeff is worried about Christmas. As the new millennium fast approaches, he discovers that escaping your roots is easier than escaping the people who remember them.