Monoceros

Shortlisted for the 2012 Furro-Grumley Award for LGBT FictionShortlisted for the 2012 W.O. Mitchell Award for Best Calgary FictionShortlisted for the 2012 Georges Bugnet Award for Alberta FictionLonglisted for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller PrizePraise for Suzette Mayr:“Venous Hum never fails to impress. Brash, macabre, and irreverent, it’s the kind of story you want to hear from a latter-day Scheherazade: so intoxicating you crave more.”—Vancouver SunA seventeen-year-old boy, bullied and heartbroken, hangs himself. And although he felt terribly alone, his suicide changes everyone around him.His parents are devastated. His secret boyfriend's girlfriend is relieved. His unicorn- and virginity-obsessed classmate, Faraday, is shattered; she wishes she had made friends with him that time she sold him an Iced Cappuccino at Tim Hortons. His English teacher, mid-divorce and mid-menopause, wishes...