Deep Sea Feline

Deep Sea Feline takes place in the oasis of Algonquin Park, Toronto and even the bustling streets of Paris. A whimsical romp through an imagined world of otherworldly creatures, musicians, opera singers and painters who are tasked with saving a city and restoring the equilibrium of life. 

Charlie Potichny, a failing musician, lost his mother at a young age. Twenty years after her death, a mysterious creature from another world visits him through one of her renowned paintings, gifting him with music that will turn his life and musical career upside down. As Charlie's life changes, his best friend Greg, a hedonistic opera singer, sinks into a rut of depression and drug abuse as his marriage falls apart. It slowly emerges that in passing off the mysterious creature's work as his own, Charlie has upset the power balance between two ancient gods. To restore equilibrium and save their city, a colourful cast of neurotic artists and musicians must face their darkest fears, stage an epic opera and navigate the strange and wondrous realms of the ancient gods.

Inspired by novels such as Haruki Murakami's Hardboiled-Wonderland and the End of the World, Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City, and Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven, Deep Sea Feline is an urban fantasy of epic proportions that transforms the city of Toronto into a playground of magic realism and transports readers to the boulevards of Paris, the mountains of Nepal and the forests of Algonquin Park.