
The Passion of
Saint-Jablonski
by
Andrew Mondry
A wildly unhinged, brutally funny novel that explores online radicalization, social breakdown, and the manic desperation of lives trapped between delusion and catastrophe.
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Stosh Saint-Jablonski was supposed to be a golf pro. Instead, he's a caddy living in a decaying Florida condo complex where the pool is filled with mysterious black ooze and the neighbors are plotting revolution. When the tyrannical condo president disappears with all their money, Stosh finds himself reluctantly in charge—and completely out of his depth. Between internet conspiracy theorists, light language channelers, crypto-mining cults, and a pet wild boar named Gator, his new reality makes his failed golf career look simple.
As summer heats up, so does the chaos. Religious zealots clash with protesters in the parking lot and an algorithm promising true love may actually be government spyware. Stosh struggles to hold his fractured community together while hiding a devastating secret about his own role in their financial ruin. Caught between his growing paranoia and the increasingly unhinged demands of leadership, he begins to suspect that every bizarre encounter might be connected in ways too terrifying—and too stupid—to believe. He finds himself navigating a world where truth has become negotiable and madness feels like the only rational response.
A savage satire of our extremely online age, where reality and the internet have merged into something unrecognizable, and the fight for sanity becomes a losing battle.
PRAISE FOR THE PASSION OF SAINT-JABLONSKI
Andrew Mondry’s brilliant, knowing, and wildly funny first novel The Passion of Saint-Jablonski is a book for and about America—not the country we want, or pretend to have, but the one we’ve got: mad, poor, rich, hustling, suffering, and trying for it all with a mix of hope and desperation. Mondry is the real deal—like Russell Banks meets Carl Hiaasen. Think of the tender, comic songbook of John Prine, the dreary kindness of the New England soul, and that one friend who kept threatening a move to Florida. A great novel by a great writer.
—Dan Bevacqua, author of Molly Bit
About Andrew
Andrew Mondry was born and raised in Western Massachusetts, where he still lives with his wife and two daughters. His short fiction has appeared in Jerry, The Nude Bruce Review, and Weird Lit Magazine. This is his first novel.