Praise for If You Lived Here You'd Already Be Home 'You may think you've read enough stories about penniless gay clowns who can't get over the loss of a dog, but I assure you, you have not.
“John Jodzio is the best kind of modern fiction writer: a thematic traditionalist who feels totally new.” -Chuck Klosterman, New York Times bestselling author By turns bleak and hopeful, cruel and tender, this is an exciting literary debut by a writer to watch, a writer with a unique and compelling voice. In these twenty-one brief, funny stories, John Jodzio documents his characters disappointment, frustration, and longing for a home that seems forever out of reach. These are just a few of the characters who populate the quirky, offbeat world of If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home a world that feels at once alien and strangely familiar. And a bikini model with a barnacle stuck to her butt cheek. An amateur veterinarian keeping watch over his suicidal daughter. A gay birthday clown lamenting the loss of his beloved dog. “These stories were my kind of stories–a little weird and magical and bittersweet.” –Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist and HungerĪ middle-aged masochist in love with a comatose man.
