Stripmalling - Tapa dura

"Fiorentino is wickedly funny."" --The Globe and Mail"

"A wall-to-wall shag carpet of variegated grimness and hapless hilarity; a mid-life crisis you can hold in your hand; a horny walking tour of sub-industrial, suburban Winnipeg." --Guy Maddin, screenwriter and director

"Worth reading for its wry, sardonic humour and delightfully self-deprecating tone . . . Thoroughly enjoyable ." "--Montreal Review of Books"

"What Jon Paul Fiorentino is up to is sly and self-effacing, deeply real and hilarious. Stripmalling is an absolute bender." --Emily Schultz, author, "Joyland"

"This incredibly comedic, somewhat tragic literary work is unlike anything you'll read, ever. Fiorentino details the desperate life of an aspiring writer with wit, oddness, and complexity." --Joe Meno, author, "Tender as Hellfire"

"Outrageous, intriguing and quietly powerful, " Stripmalling" offers readers the curious and ultimately rewarding experience of stepping outside their own stories." --"Scene Magazine"

"Both a semi-autobiographical first novel from Winnipeg-born author Jon Paul Fiorentino and something more complex and metafictional. . . . A collage-like experience, "Stripmalling "is a hybrid book forged out of multiple angles and perspectives. It is also a funny and clever experiment in tale-telling. --"Quill & Quire"

"Expands our concept of what makes something worth reading . . . [Jonny is] a metafictional anti-hero for the new millennium." --"Fiction Writers Review"