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Get ready to smile....[A] sweet story and the perfect antidote to the chaos that s been 2021. -the Skimm A deeply funny and shrewdly observed debut novel about being lost in the very place you know by heart. Bennett Driscoll is a Turner Prize-nominated artist who was once a rising star. Now at age fifty-five his wife has left him he hasn t sold a painting in two years and his gallery wants to stop selling his work claiming they ll have more value retrospectively...when he s dead. So left with a large West London home and no income he s forced to move into his artist s studio in the back garden and list his house on the popular vacation rental site AirBed. A stranger now in his own home with his daughter Mia off at art school and any new relationships fizzling out at best Bennett struggles to find purpose in his day-to-day. That all changes when three different guests--lonely American Alicia; tortured artist Emma; and cautiously optimistic divorcée Kirstie--unwittingly unlock the pieces of himself that have been lost to him for too long. Warm witty and utterly humane Super Host offers a captivating portrait of middle age relationships and what it truly means to take a new chance at life.

With a twisted sense of humor and a heavy dose of fantasy Katchadjian takes those things that are so common as to be ordinary-bad bosses crazy significant others descent into drug use-and sets them in a realm that brings to mind Kafka or Kojève. Our narrator presents us with a constantly moving array of bizarre philosophically tinged excitement: a slave rebellion in a strange castle on an unnamed island an attack of flying worms made of ash which either represents Adam s sin or the Oedipal complex a feral young woman who lives off the grid on whatever she can scrounge and a hallucinatory root that throws the narrator into a black void which he comes to fear he may never escape.