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Fiction Humorous

Touching Strangers

by (author) Stacey Madden

Publisher
Now or Never Publishing Co.
Initial publish date
Apr 2017
Category
Humorous, Literary
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781988098241
    Publish Date
    Apr 2017
    List Price
    $19.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781988098418
    Publish Date
    Apr 2017
    List Price
    $9.99
  • Downloadable audio file

    ISBN
    9781989689226
    Publish Date
    Nov 2021
    List Price
    $25.99

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Description

Aaron Cordic and Samantha Riske are a couple of twenty-something hypochondriacs living in east-end Toronto. While Aaron works part-time at a bathroom supply store, donning surgical masks, plastic gloves, and a backpack full of sanitary products, Samantha hides herself away in their apartment, tip-toeing around naked and spying on the neighbours. Between paranoid trips to the doctor and extremely intimate examinations of each other's bodies, they've managed to eke out an isolated and highly sterilized existence.

Then, one day, birds begin falling from the sky as numerous tenants in their building become mysteriously ill. Before long, a pandemic known as Buzzard Flu has swept across the city, and Aaron and Samantha must come to terms with the all-too-real possibility that disease, or even death, could finally be at hand. But is Buzzard Flu the biggest problem the couple must face? Or does a more dangerous killer lurk closer to home.

By turns disturbing, uplifting, funny, and weirdly erotic, Touching Strangers examines what it means to be young and afraid in a world more hazardous than we want to believe.

About the author

Stacey Madden was born and raised in east Toronto, where he still resides. He holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Toronto, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. His first novel, Poison Shy, was published in 2012, and he frequently reviews books for Quill & Quire. He enjoys books, beer, and quiet reading time. He owns a cat.

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