UNWANTED HOPELESS ROMANTIC MORONS
Book Description
They left suburbia for the cities, chasing something they couldn't name. What they found was worse. UNWANTED HOPELESS ROMANTIC MORONS captures the disconnected youth of a generation hitch-hiking across the vastness of Canada — lured by promises of freedom and finding only further alienation, disappointment, and the slow erosion of hope.
Through the eyes of Tom, a young man drifting from one exploit to another, Geoffrey Alexander Parsons charts a landscape of substance abuse, casual cruelty, and the innocent yearnings of youth colliding with a wasteland of nihilistic greed and narcotic egoism. The novel blends stark realism with flashes of tenderness — moments where the hard shell cracks and something vulnerable, something still capable of love, briefly surfaces before being drowned again.
This is fiction that refuses to sentimentalize: a raw, unflinching portrait of modern struggle in the margins of Canadian life. For readers who recognize that the road doesn't always lead somewhere better — and that sometimes the most honest stories are the ones that don't offer easy redemption.
Author Bio
GEOFFREY ALEXANDER PARSONS is a Canadian author whose fiction explores the disenchantments and hidden yearnings of contemporary youth. UNWANTED HOPELESS ROMANTIC MORONS is his debut novel with 8th House Publishing.
Book Details
| ISBN: | 978-0-9809108-9-6 |
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| Publisher: | 8th House Publishing |
| Genre: | Literary Fiction / Coming of Age / Canadian Fiction |
| Format: | Paperback / eBook |
| Pages: | 172 |
| Setting: | Canada, cross-country |
| Debut: | Yes — Debut novel |
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