On your bicycle, we are flying. In my sock feet and nightgown,
I stand up on your handlebars, the prow of a ship heading into
the great unknown, and I climb onto your mile-wide shoulders,
can see the next continent ... You catch the moon, always heavy
in your mouth. You tell me it tastes like ice and regret. You tell
me it tastes like liftoff.

Eugenia Ledoux, nine years old, wakes to a note from
her father: ‘gone to save the world. sorry. yours, sheb
wooly ledoux. asshole.’ Eugenia is left behind with her
mother, the sharp-edged B-movie actress Mink, and
her sister, the death-obsessed and hauntingly beautiful
Immaculata. When Mink climbs into the family car
and vanishes, Eugenia doubles in age overnight, but
remains the dark and diminutive creature who earned
the nickname ‘Stunt.’

Eugenia devotes herself to finding Sheb. She writes
to the man she believes to be Sheb’s father: I.I. Finbar
Me The Three, a retired tightrope walker. Waiting for
Finbar’s response, she retreats to Toronto Island,
where she meets Samuel Station, a barefoot volup-
tuary, world traveller and ring-maker.

When Finbar does write back, Eugenia wonders if
she will find what she is looking for – or something else
entirely. Studded with postcards from outer space,
twins, levitation, the explosion of a shoulder-pad
factory, and some accomplished taxidermy, Stunt is
part dirge, part cowboy poetry and part love letter to
the wilder corners of Toronto and of ourselves.

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