Privilege

A cutting satire concerning the death spiral of the white, male identity.

With his divorce nearly finalized, the surprise success of his freshman book on the wane, and his ill-advised affair with grad student Lara Kitts put to bed, Dr. Barker Samuel Stone is on the precipice of a cozy tenure-track existence.

Then an enigmatic e-mail sends Barker’s life spiralling along an unanticipated trajectory. Summoned to a late-night confab at the campaign office of controversial mayoral candidate Baz Randell – folk hero to some, populist blowhard to everyone else – Barker is looped in on an epic, career-ending scandal.

Jason Patrick Rothery of Calgary, Alberta

Jason Patrick Rothery is a freelance writer, theatre artist, and lapsed academic. He has a BFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and was teh resident playwright for the Soulpepper Academy in Toronto. Privilege is his first novel.