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From a gritty winter in Parkdale in 1997 to the sunshine of the Byward Market in the summer of 1998, Something So Sweet follows two separate storylines: one, a hero’s journey and the other, a tragic fall, each taking place in end-of-the-20th-century Toronto and Ottawa.

Cast out of her home at the age of 12, Dirty has spent 10 years moving from place to place, struggling just to keep a roof over her head. But one mis-step with a violent drug dealer forces her to develop the courage and strength to not only face him, but to finally return home and reclaim what is rightfully hers.

Henry is a 30-something gay man living in Ottawa, with a good job and a bad-influence ex-boyfriend. Henry isn’t sure who he really wants to be, but when he drunkenly assaults a co-worker at a New Year’s party, he is sent on a spiral of self-doubt, denial, and misery.

Though they never formally meet, in the final act both characters find themselves in the same hospital room, but for different reasons: one to commit murder, the other to be called to account for their failings.

Populated by drug addicts, a man addicted to furry porn, and an almost-blind seer who reads cigarette butts like tea leaves, Something So Sweet drags the reader through the weird places before finally coming back home.