Reality and delusion collide in this hilariously tragic story about one family's absurd secrets and the dreams they hide.

The Day Aunt Gina Came to Town is a literary black comedy that puts a playful spin on the idea that 'we are what we pretend to be.' Taking its cue from surrealist notions of a reality substantially conjured by the unconscious, this novel examines the private

John Schoneboom is the author of the novel Fontoon (Dedalus Books) and a number of plays produced for Off Off Broadway venues. He is the founding editor of and frequent contributor to Bratum Books’ Uncommonalities series of short stories that share a common first line. His word-collage play Dreams of Jimmy Bannon won the Artists’ Fellowship Award from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and an extract from a novel under development won a Northern Writers’ Award, supported in part by Arts Council England. His PhD (Northumbria University) was on the terrorism novel in a surrealist mode, and he also holds MAs in creative writing (Northumbria) and in science, technology, and international affairs (George Washington University), and a BA focusing on US foreign policy in Central America (Hampshire College). Originally from New York, Schoneboom now resides in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.