Cockroach

A razor-edged, darkly funny dive into the underground of Montreal.
After a failed suicide attempt, a self-confessed thief is forced into therapy and dragged—sometimes kicking—through the wreckage of his past: a war-torn childhood, smoky émigré cafés, and the frozen city streets where he survives by wit, hunger, and imagination. Convinced he’s part man, part cockroach, he scuttles through the lives of the comfortable and willfully blind, exposing what people hide in their basements and in their hearts.

With hypnotic prose and jabs of pitch-black humor, Cockroach delivers an uncompromising portrait of outsiders and the brutal tenderness of survival. It’s a haunting, hallucinatory story about identity, class, and the stories we tell ourselves to keep going—perfect for readers of bold, boundary-pushing literary fiction.

Positioning: Award-listed literary novel; gritty, voice-driven; ideal for fans of immigrant narratives, psychological anti-heroes, and urban noir with a surreal twist.

Condition: Like New