A drug dealer named Kurt
is killed by his own henchman. Imagine his surprise when he is reincarnated fully conscious into a newborn baby boy named Keenan, hostage to a clueless millennial couple in suburban Campbell, California. As he grows up in a confusing middle class prison, tortured by the follies of his past, he plots the eventual confrontation with his murderers. ​

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Part surreal coming-of-age memoir, part crime novel, Imagine My Surprise! is a comic, dark commentary on childhood in the 21st century and the banal destruction of substance use.

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Praise for Imagine My Surprise!

 

"Imagine My Surprise! is a novel that will make you laugh, wonder and break your heart. It's a kind of Look Who's Talking meets Pulp Fiction written with the finely-tuned style of a virtuoso novelist."

 

Wes Brown — Editor, Writer, Professor of Literature

Author of Breaking Kayfabe: A Novel (Bluemoose, 2023)

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"Imagine My Surprise! is hard to put down, and it entertainingly pushes the crime genre to new possibilities. Mr. Haddock has written an edgy morality tale, a surreal existential crime novel that fuses comedy and tragedy in a surprisingly delightful way."

 

Jeffrey Weissman — Writer, Actor, Director

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