Author: Jordan Moffatt. Published by Applebeard Editions, 2019, 1st Edition. SIGNED by the Author. Printed in Canada. Almost New Condition SOFTCOVER Book. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 7 x 5 inch, 130 pages.
U IS FOR UPSIDE-DOWN HOUSE, is a collection of twenty-seven short (very short) stories, where up is down, ugly is beautiful, and it is a crime to make anything perfect; in other words, everything is the opposite from what might be expected on Earth.
The writing is crystal-clear, and the storytelling fresh and succinct. Humour abounds. Everything is told in first-person, which lends consistency to the collection. One gets the sense that Moffatt feels a lot of joy in playing with ideas, words and language. He occasionally eschews basic rules of punctuation and uses run-on sentences that go on and on like the Energizer Bunny, an idiosyncratic tool to exemplify the manic state of characters. It works.
