Cracker Jacks for Misfits
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Cracker Jacks for Misfits is a finely layered narrative of interconnected short stories about discovering independence, strength, and the power to love.
Naomi, Joanne, Jake and Marce find themselves caught in the crosshairs of modern-day chaos marked by urban claustrophobia and loneliness. They are searching for intimacy, hungry for human connection; looking for it online, in dive bars, on road trips, in unfamiliar bedrooms, on curbs outside house parties, and in hushed conversations with strangers.
This is a contemporary and poignant portrait of the moment when childhood becomes a new country of adult commitments… Discontent and over-connectivity joust with those responsibilities at the core of today’s society: understanding and respecting the strengths and frailties of those who we call friends, family – and the other.
5 x 8 inches, TPB, 198 pages
Cracker Jacks for Misfits is the Millennial story of four people who find themselves caught in the crosshairs of modern-day chaos as they discover independence, strength, and the power to love.
“Ottoni weaves a symphonic tapestry of strength and courage.”
—Bruce Meyer, author/editor of over 60 books; inaugural Poet Laureate of Barrie, Ontario.
“Ottoni’s style is subtle and direct, evoking a trace of Mary Karr and the cleanness of Cormac McCarthy.”
—Teresa Toten, author of The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B.
Christine Ottoni has had work appear in the pages of untethered journal and The Alaska Quarterly Review. She was shortlisted for PEN Canada’s nomination to the New Voices Award and was featured at the Eden Mills Writers’ Festivals in the emerging writers set, 2018, and appeared again in 2019. She lives in Toronto.
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