"What do you think they're doing right now?"Nothing holds Michael to the present like his memories of a better past. His current life; full of Kafkaesque factory work, alcohol, and post-university malaise, offers nothing - which suits Michael, as he wants nothing. But when the one person anchoring his life disappears one day, Michael is left adrift in a world that isn't interested in helping him. That is, until he meets Spirrie; an acid-tongued, gender-fluid newcomer to town who takes a strange interest in Michael's existential dilemma.Cue a break-in, a cocaine-fuelled Gnome hunt, and countless nights of conversations, regret, and booze. Shippeitaro is a novel about searching for meaning in a world that has none, and coming to terms with the weight of your own history, and future.