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category: Fiction
published: Apr 2009
ISBN:9780887848407
publisher: House of Anansi Press Inc

Heaven is Small

by Emily Schultz

tagged: humorous
Description

Award-winning author and poet Emily Schultz offers an immensely readable, funny, and sharp novel about a man who works for a Harlequin-like publisher, and gradually discovers that he has arrived in "heaven." Like Will Ferguson's international bestseller, Happiness, Heaven is Small is a smart, satirical novel from one of our best.

Heaven is Small is the funny, layered, startling, and profound story of Gordon Small, a degree-clutching slacker and failed fiction writer. Gordon is also, we discover in the first paragraph, recently deceased - although this is "an event he failed to notice." When Gordon finds himself suddenly employed at the Heaven Book Company, the world's largest romance publisher, he begins to notice that something is odd: his routines within the company's walls, though familiar in some respects, have taken on a strange cast - stranger than is usual in the average suburban office.

With sly deadpan humour, brilliant insight into the human condition, and exceptionally beautiful writing, Schultz explores what it means to be truly alive only after you're dead.

About the Author
Emily Schultz is in award-winning writer and a co-founder of the literary website Joyland: A hub for short fiction. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit Emily Schultz's website: http://emilyschultz.com/ Follow Emily Schultz on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/manualofstyle
Editorial Reviews

Schultz's latest is a satire of office life, romance novels, and afterlife narratives. She has accomplished something quite remarkable here, deftly juggling all this social commentary and a rather blandly sympathetic protagonist with a sharp command of language.

— Publishers Weekly

. . . an enjoyable, fast-paced ride . . . nothing can beat Schultz's frenetic, surprising, and genuinely funny writing.

— Fiddlehead

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