The Olive and the Dawn, Ian Orti’s debut collection, explores, with tenderness and hilarity, the grey zones of life:  the psychological non-space people find themselves once the reference points that shaped their existence suddenly become stripped away. This book reveals glitches in the human design, with characters who confront an equally fallible God, asserting, contrary to popular belief, that unwavering self-destruction is the very essence of humanity.  Orti reveals a world where even good choices come with bad  consequences, childhood sports heroes make more sense than Jesus, and God is no less of a bully than the month of November.

isbn: 0981248802/9780981248806 | 12.00 cdn/us | 4.75 x 7 inches | 96 pages |  2009

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Ian Orti is a Montreal based writer, journalist, and columnist. He writes a music column in Matrix magazine and has also contributed to Vice magazine and Fault magazine.

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