The Ocean Container

In this surreal and lyric debut novel, an environmentalist accused by a North American petro-state of economic terrorism takes refuge in a compound for vagrants. Surrounded by a variety of social and political outcasts-dubious charity providers, a spiritual healer, a man with two right eyes, contraband exotic species, and a theatrical company that may be a front for prostitution-the terrorist gradually embraces the exile of his improvised home, a container, where the division between imagination and external reality will irrevocably blur.

Canadian author Patrik Sampler's fiction and non-fiction have appeared in The Guardian, Marco Polo, and other publications. A contributing editor for the surrealist magazine Peculiar Mormyrid, he can be found online at patriksampler.