Canada Dry

The main character in Canada Dry feels stuck, both in art and in life. He hasn’t finished any art in five years, he and his girlfriend are unable to have a child—and he can’t even manage to get his driving licence. A few seconds’ unconsciousness after being struck by a car changes everything. While out, he glimpses what his next project will be: an artwork that can only be visited in dreams. He throws himself into his dream-work, all the while becoming entangled in an unfamiliar underground milieu—in which dreams are built in prefabricated modules, illegal substances are pushed over the kitchen table, and two factions are battling over the correct interpretation of the juvenilia of an American sleep researcher.

As if that weren’t enough, he is applying for international adoption, learning the right way to signal out of roundabouts, and juggling a budding romance with a young mother who is suspiciously similar to his girlfriend. Canada Dry is a novel about the ways in which reality resembles a dream, and the reality contained within our weirdest, most intense dreams.