Shortlisted for the ReLit Award "A carnivalesque romp through middle age, addressing the menace of mortality while lampooning comic stereotypes . . . Pulses with life." -- Globe and Mail A Nabokovian fever dream, an encyclopedic guide to mortal sin, and a thoroughly contemporary reimagining of Billy Wilder's classic film The Lost Weekend; and yes, of course, it's a love story too In this sharp-witted...