Take Five

What do you do when. . .
... You’re 17 and a burglary offers easy pickings?
... You’ve lost your personal clone?
... All the smartest people in the world are dropping like flies in a global epidemic?
... Your ex-wife is taking your child away from you and you’ve got an old buddy who’s a bomb-maker?
... Your ex-lover has been killed falling down the stairs of your apartment?
... Government agents plan to take your brother away and put him in a detox program?

Short stories by François Barcelo, Quebec's maestro of dark humor. This translation will give English readers a taste of the wit and inventiveness of one of Quebec's most popular writers.

When things are going from bad to worse, the reader can never be sure how Barcelo will resolve the dilemma.