Patchwork, Tom Comitta
Patchwork, Tom Comitta
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Patchwork

Author: Tom Comitta

Narrator: Mike Lenz

Unabridged: 4 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/19/2025


Synopsis

Tom Comitta returns with a novella that is at once a picaresque quest for a stolen snuffbox and a marvel of literary découpage, equal parts love story, old-fashioned thriller, and absurdist romp.

To whom does a story belong? Who is its author? What is an author? Does it matter? These questions and more populate the subversive and audacious Patchwork, a comical tragedy that highlights the connective tissue that joins stories to themselves as well as to the grand history of storytelling itself. Celebrating the tropes and clichés of classical novels while simultaneously forging them into an original narrative, Patchwork ultimately shows us that the stories produced by hundreds of writers past—celebrated or obscure, reverent or hilarious, factual or fantastical—may, in the hands of a master, become a single, seamless whole.

About Tom Comitta

Tom Comitta is the author of Airport Novella and First Thought Worst Thought: Collected Books 2011-2014, a print and digital archive of forty "night novels," art books, and poetry collections. Comitta's fiction and essays have appeared in WIRED, Lit Hub, Electric Literature, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Believer, BOMB, and Best American Experimental Writing 2020. They live in Brooklyn.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dani on August 08, 2025

I enjoyed this but I wanted more! This felt really short again compared to the rest of the series, much like Luca's book in the Mafia series, which was a little disappointing because I do prefer more plot and emotion in a book rather than a lot of sex scenes connected together. I also struggle with......more

Goodreads review by The Secret Librarian on August 08, 2025

Rating: 4.5 Steam: 4 PoV: dual, 1st person Genre: contemporary romance, MM Tropes / tags: hookup to more, age gap, small town I loved Hero and Onyx’s story - their romance made me feel all giddy and happy! I’m having a fantastic time with this series, the humour, the feelings, the characters, the found fa......more

Goodreads review by Alexis on August 11, 2025

3.5 rounded up! This was cute and fun like the other books in the series! Felt kind of repetitive at times as both Onyx and Hero were inner monologuing their concerns the whole time but didn't tell each other until the end. Spice was good though and the concept of having a personal tattoo artist..........more

Goodreads review by Tonya on August 02, 2025

This is my favorite of the series so far. Onyx and Hero are adorable together, and even though I usually avoid the rock-star/ billionaire" trope, this one was fantastic. Ms Neuhold's characters are always fun to read, and it's so neat to always have a couple of cameos from our favorites from other s......more

Goodreads review by Donna on August 18, 2025

3.5 stars......more