Brothers confront their past and legacy in this dark humoured novel

THE Nicotine Gospel is a darkly funny road trip novel that follows the lives of two brothers, Nate and Danny, as they navigate their complicated relationship and their father’s unusual beliefs.

- Sven Axelrad

The story begins on New Year's Eve in 1987 when lightning kills their mother. To cope with this loss and make sense of a world seemingly governed by chance, their distant and eccentric father creates the Nicotine Gospel.

He believes that “an eight by five cardboard box containing somewhere near twenty machine-made cigarettes would tell you all you needed to know about a man”