Mick Servodio Author

Chris Castellano photographs other people's happiest day for a living. He's good at it. He knows where to stand, when to press the shutter, how to make a stranger trust him in the four seconds before a vow. What he can't do is feel any of it land.

Anatomy of a Dark Heart follows Chris through a Brisbane summer as the careful performance of his life starts to come apart. There's the work, the drinking, the women who pass through and the one, Bianca, who doesn't. There's the slow creep of a man narrating his own decline and getting it wrong as often as right. He's charming. He's a liar. He notices everything except the thing that matters, and the reader watches him miss it in real time.

This is transgressive literary fiction for people who read for voice over plot. This raw and gritty story doesn't flinch from the parts most novels look away from. Funny in the way that hurts. Honest in the way that costs something.

A debut for readers who like their narrators unreliable, their interiority deep, and their endings earned rather than given.

Anatomy of a Dark Heart is a visceral, sometimes darkly funny novel about love, addiction, and the war between the person you are and the person someone makes you want to be. Raw, honest, and unafraid of the ugly parts, it's for anyone who has ever stood in the way of their own life.

He sees every mistake coming. He makes them anyway. And he'll tell you exactly how it feels.

The debut novel from Mick Servodio. Coming soon.

ANATOMY OF A DARK HEART

COMING SOON