Jean wouldn't be able stand it if something unfortunate were to befall her friends--that's why decides to kill them herself, before anything else can harm them. Bad Marie meets Arsenic and Old Lace in this darkly humorous story of a woman whose overpowering love for her friends moves her to murder each and every one of them. Practical Jean, the U.S. debut of acclaimed Canadian author Trevor Cole, is a "biting and black comedy of middle-class mores gone murderously wrong" that "combines diamond-cut social satire with thoughtful contemplations of friendship" (Globe and Mail). A deliciously dark satire with roots that spread from Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal to Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands, Cole's Practical Jean is a razor's edge dissection of relationships, faithfulness, and homicide. After all, what are friends for?


Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 10/11/2011
ISBN: 9780062082503
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.90d
Award: Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize - Finalist

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 06/20/2011
Library Journal 09/15/2011 pg. 67
Booklist 09/15/2011 pg. 25
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2011
New York Times Book Review 10/30/2011 pg. 14