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Daniel Zomparelli

Daniel Zomparelli (he/him) is the author of the poetry books Jump Scare, Davie Street Translations, and Rom Com, co-written with Dina Del Bucchia. His story collection Everything Is Awful and You’re a Terrible Person was a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and won the ReLit Short Fiction Award. He co-edited Queer Little Nightmares with David Ly. Born and raised in Vancouver, he now lives in Glendale, California.

Super Castle Fun Park

“I love this book. With writing that feels halfway to mysticism, like a blurting, flowing down from a mystic who also happens to be incredibly funny.” –Jenny Slate

The dead want to speak to you. But are you ready to hear their words? Super Castle Fun Park explores a group of people tending wistfully to their precarious lives. Dario is an aimless pessimist staying at a themed hotel who is tasked with the care of his aunt at the end of her life. Jeremy is Dario’s anxious boyfriend who is trapped in his home, plagued by disturbing visions. Chelsea is an ornery medium who spends her free time on her phone trolling a group of misfits in an online game. Each of them is at the precipice of change, and the people they are interconnected to, including the dead, will be there when it happens.

Moving seamlessly between quiet melancholy, wry humour, and the supernatural, Super Castle Fun Park is a novel that defies expectations: a tragicomic, very human story about isolation, ghosts, technology, and our deep, abiding need for connection.

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