Book Launch: Rafael Has Pretty Eyes

Join Elaine McCluskey at the Halifax Central Library for the launch of her new book Rafael Has Pretty Eyes on Tuesday, March 29 at 7 p.m.

Set in the Maritimes but transcending regional boundaries, Elaine McCluskey’s stories range from thought-provoking to hilarious, often focusing on the many people left to live on society’s margins. Smart, compassionate, and unsparing, Rafael Has Pretty Eyes explores the absurdity and interconnectedness of a life adrift. These 17 new stories feature characters who exhibit the Murphy’s law tendancies often pervasive in Maritimers: that feeling of dread often presaging something going horribly, unpredictably wrong.
Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Bookmark Halifax.

“You go through life convinced you’re going to get diabetes like your old man and one day you choke to death on chicken gristle, and the autopsy shows your blood sugars were perfect.” -Rafael Has Pretty Eyes

“McCluskey is the Queen of Invention. The endless sharp observations about surprisingly mobile modern-day life in the Maritimes are pointed and pungent; the book positively percolates with energy, wit and precision.” — Calgary Herald

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