Tatouine follows an unnamed narrator who navigates the grind of suburban Montreal, low-wage work, and medical treatments while retreating into vivid, often absurd daydreams about a distant planet. The prose moves between quiet, domestic detail and offbeat imaginative episodes.

The book blends wry humor with emotional clarity: small scenes—poetry, grocery runs, hospital visits—become portals to a richer inner life. Pop-culture fantasies and surreal asides underscore a struggle to find dignity and joy amid mundane setbacks.

For readers who favour character-driven contemporary fiction, Tatouine offers a compact, humane exploration of escape, resilience, and the ways imagination reshapes ordinary experience.

• Voice: intimate, darkly comic first-person
• Themes: chronic illness, imagination, working-class Montreal
• Details: 280 pages, Baraka Books paperback

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