"Spaid's debut novel delivers a bizarre, entrancing collection of anecdotes about a man who's inappropriately interested in his neighbors ... Spaid's prose is strong and smart ... offbeat satire ... a magnetic stream-of-consciousness narrative."
–Kirkus Reviews
BBC Radio broadcast a separate, humorous story by the author, set in South India. Like this story, the novel tireless: reflects his experiences in different countries and jobs. An Australian, he has travelled in over thirty countries, working as a language tutor in Greece, Italy and Taiwan, as well as a school teacher in India, Australia and the UK, where he now lives with his wife.