All My Friends Are Superheroes

All Tom’s friends really are superheroes.

There’s the Ear, the Spooner, the Impossible Man. Tom even married a superhero, the Perfectionist. But at their wedding, the Perfectionist was hypnotized (by ex-boyfriend Hypno, of course) to believe that Tom is invisible. Nothing he does can make her see him. Six months later, she’s sure that Tom has abandoned her. So she’s moving to Vancouver. She’ll use her superpower to make Vancouver perfect and leave all the heartbreak in Toronto. With no idea Tom’s beside her, she boards an airplane. Tom has until the wheels touch the ground in Vancouver to convince her he’s visible, or he loses her forever. The 10th anniversary edition of Andrew Kaufman’s perennial favorite All My Friends Are Superheroes includes a new catalogue of superheroes.

©2003, 2013 Andrew Kaufman (P)2021 Coach House Books

Funny and weird

Or is it weird and funny? This golden nugget will have laugh out loud one moment and go into deep thought the next. It is often obvious, but only after the fact. It is what you see all around you that you somehow missed. You will find yourself wanting to share snippets with friends and loved ones until you realize they should listen to the whole thing themselves.