In George Dalphin's first novel Jonathon Esmereldero, 40-year-old ex-punk family man fresh from a failed suicide, and his middle daughter Marie, 16-year-old, precocious and wanderlustful, both become dissatisfied with their place in status-quo society and flee their family life, undergoing synchronous odysseys of nearly magical-realist fabulousness and misery.

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This is George Dalphin's first novel, self-published by Man-Like Machines in 2007.