Posted on 10/05/08
Impossible to say
PARDON OUR MONSTERSBy Andrew HoodVéhicule, 182 pages, $17.95Andrew Hood's Pardon Our Monsters opens on a muggy summer day in 1991, somewhere in small-town Ontario. Joe is 8. He's a pain in the butt and knows it, cultivates it, even when it means a knuckle-dusting from his brother, Shannon. He makes a buzzy insect sound that he can weirdly extend until it drives Shan batty. We join them en route to a swim in the river, Joe plaguing Shan like a gnat.
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