Blind Spot

“Some days
I wish something truly bad would happen so that I would have something genuine
to worry about.”

When his parents’ car is hit by a train,
Luke, a failed actor, returns to his Edmonton hometown to attend their funeral,
wrap up their affairs, and prepare their house to be sold off. But while all
others around him grieve, Luke remains detached, striking up a relationship
with a woman in a neighbouring house … and
stumbling across evidence that his mother may have engaged in a longstanding
extramarital affair herself.

In Luke, Laurence Miall has
crafted an unforgettable literary antihero, a man disconnected from the pain of
those around him, yet blind to his own faults. With his clean, forceful
language and a familiarity with the darker corners of the male psyche, Blind
Spot is a gripping literary debut.