num_pages: 256
description: Award-winning author and poet Emily Schultz offers an immensely readable funny and sharp novel about a man who works for a Harlequin-like publisher and gradually discovers that he has arrived in heaven. Like Will Ferguson's international bestseller Happiness Heaven is Small is a smart satirical novel from one of our best.Heaven is Small is the funny layered startling and profound story of Gordon Small a degree-clutching slacker and failed fiction writer. Gordon is also we discover in the first paragraph recently deceased - although this is an event he failed to notice. When Gordon finds himself suddenly employed at the Heaven Book Company the world's largest romance publisher he begins to notice that something is odd: his routines within the company's walls though familiar in some respects have taken on a strange cast - stranger than is usual in the average suburban office.With sly deadpan humour brilliant insight into the human condition and exceptionally beautiful writing Schultz explores what it means to be truly alive only after you're dead.
language: English
title: Heaven is Small
publisher: House of Anansi