From Kirkus Reviews
" Zevy's]'s debut short story collection offers whimsical, mostly true tales of his life as an Egyptian Jew in Canada.... But this book, consisting of 34 tales, isn't exclusively autobiographical. A man named Harold Goldfarb headlines a series of hysterical stories, which see him meticulously plotting his suicide-this turns out to be less morbid than it sounds-and, later, struggling to decipher the meaning of a coconut...