ISBN:
9781772016406
Pages: 128 pp
Pub. Date:
December 17 2024
Dimensions: 8.5" x 5.5" x 0.4375"
Rights: Available: WORLD
Categories
Fiction / FIC052000
Feast follows a comfortable North American family as they contend with compounding global crises and the end of things as we know them. Each member of the family deals with the coming troubles in their own way. Twenty-something daughter Isabel turns to activism. Her mother Julia fortifies their home in preparation. And her father Mark lets his increasingly extractive foodie cravings precipitate the family’s unravelling as he turns to super-competent, underemployed fixer and logistics genius Chukwuemeka Okonkwe for help satisfying his urge to consume more. Moving from North America to Beirut to Mombasa, with stops along the way at Starbucks, the Centre for Avant-Garde Geography, and a cave on the island of Lampedusa, Feast spans the globalized world and beyond, offering a wild, magic-realist take on the uncertainties and anxieties of the early twenty-first century.
"A bold artistic work … filmic in its sweep … a searing look at how greed and excessive consumption can be destructive, both to ourselves and those around us." – Joshua Chong, Toronto Star
"Terrific." – Joe Szekeres, Our Theatre Voice
"Guillermo Verdecchia’s Feast is just that, morsel after delicious morsel of poignant dialogue and intriguing storytelling." – A View from the Box
Guillermo Verdecchia is a writer of drama, fiction, and film; a director, dramaturge, actor, and translator whose work has been seen and heard on stages, screens, and radios across the country and around the globe. He is a recipient of the Governor General’s Award for Drama, a four-time winner of the Chalmers Canadian Play Award, a recipient of Dora and Jessie Awards, and sundry film festival awards for his film Crucero/Crossroads.