Review
Charles Demers writes wittily, unguardedly, and often downright scandalously, until he arrives, in The Prescription Errors, with a novel that is as much about an individual's uneasy condition as it is about a society's deeper illness. Read this book if you're prepared for fiction's equivalent to a raucous stand-up performance, if you're prepared for a merciless send-up of social pieties, and most of all, if you're prepared to confront and enjoy the strangest of symptoms. — David Chariandy, author of Soucouyant
Product Description
In Charles Demers's darkly comic debut novel, Daniel — an East Vancouver obsessive-compulsive — is forced to evaluate his self-absorption against the trials and traumas of others. As he tries to submerge himself in a solitary, Karl Marx-inspired research project in the basement archives of the medical library, Daniel watches his family flounder at the centre of a free-speech fight for a children's book about a same-sex relationship—between turtles. Whether you read this book for Demers's razor-sharp prose — he is a master of observation and a deft purveyor of contemporary vernacular — or simply to be dazzled by one hell of a story, prepare yourself: here's a brave new voice that is both fresh and brash.
