Stripmalling is the first novel by Jon Paul Fiorentino, and a very
funny one it is.... Amid the hilarious scenes that make up Stripmalling —
 gas-station hot-boxing, desperate ploys for sex, moderate success in
the writing world — Fiorentino produces peaks of warmth and true sadness.
— Globe and Mail

Stripmalling enthusiastically plays with notions of place and character,
and it's chock-full of witty and subtle asides and observations that'll
have readers thumbing back through the pages to read and
re-read again and again.
— Uptown

Stripmalling is a very funny book. ... It challenges the boundaries of
comedic taste, reader sympathy, modern consumerism, and box store
capitalism.
— The Malahat Review

Fiorentino is achingly funny. ... Obsessed with cycles of constructing
and demolishing, of remember and inventing, Stripmalling pays
tribute to the performance of storytelling.
— Gloss Magazine

Seriously, in Canada, we often dismiss comedic books because
we think they're more lightweight or less literary. Not true!
Stripmalling is a rock n' roll ride into our self-delusions, the
ennui of ordinary urbanity and the pain of evaporating dreams.
Plus, it's got pretty pictures.
— Schema Magazine

[Stripmalling] resonates — to the point where its protagonist,
Jonny, recalls one of literature’s greatest icons, Holden Caulfield,
of J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye
— Rover Arts

Picture Synecdoche, New York, except easier to swallow and way
funnier. In a way, the book itself is a mid-life crisis,more than
being about one. Stripmalling is undeniably original, brave,
 and a very fun thing to read.
— Slug Magazine

It's a Canadian triumph. It's not pretty, but it's a great romp. A funny,
funny romp.
— Lemon Hound

A collage-like experience, Stripmalling is a hybrid book forged out 
of multiple angles and perspectives. It is also a funny and clever
experiment in tale-telling.
— Quill and Quire

Stripmalling is an amusing, breezy read ... well-paced fun.
— Complete Review

Very fucking funny.
— Vice

tongue-in-cheek, soft absurdist humour wrapped around
well-rendered foibles.
— Open Book Toronto

[Stripmalling] expands our concept of what makes something
worth reading.... [Jonny is] a metafictional anti-hero for the
new millennium.
— Fiction Writers Review

Stripmalling is an entertaining, occasionally disorienting trip through
the wires of Jonny, a presumably semi-fictional character working in and
around a strip mall in suburban Winnipeg.... Outrageous, intriguing and
quietly powerful, Stripmalling offers readers the curious and ultimately
 rewarding experience of stepping outside their own stories.
— Scene Magazine

Stripmalling is an author’s memoir freed from the tyranny of facts.
Jonny shares his personal issues with an off-the-wall candour.... From the
top of Stripmalling, you see a keen mind at work under the quirky surface.
— Xtra

There’s a welcome what-the-hell bent to the fictionalized part-memoir,
part-graphic novel collage that is Jon Paul Fiorentino’s Stripmalling.
— Toronto Star

...poignant, politically savvy and laugh-out-loud-funny...
— Montreal Mirror

Stripmalling is worth reading for its wry, sardonic humour and
delightfully self-deprecating tone . . . Thoroughly enjoyable.
— Montreal Review of Books

This is a strange but alluring combination of novel - graphic and
literary, memoir and journal ... a funny and offbeat book that will
take you by surprise. (Four Stars).
— Curled Up

[Stripmalling has] a poignant tension between narrative and fragmentation,
hopefulness and cynicism. . . . [Fiorentino has] become one of Montreal's —
and Canada's — most prolific and accomplished young writers.
— Hour

Jon Paul Fiorentino's Stripmalling is a wall-to-wall shag carpet
of variegated grimness and hapless hilarity; a midlife crisis
you can hold in your hand; a horny walking tour of
sub-industrial, suburban Winnipeg — in a word, singular.
             — Guy Maddin, director of My Winnipeg and The Saddest Music in the World.

 What is this book exactly? Part memoir, part diary, part how-to,
part novel, part comic book, this incredibly comedic, somewhat
 tragic literary work is unlike anything you'll read, ever.
Fiorentino details the desperate life of an aspiring writer with
wit, oddness, and complexity.
— Joe Meno, author of The Boy Detective Fails and Hairstyles of the Damned.

If you've ever had a mid-life crisis before reaching mid-life, worked
 for minimum wage, or been told to tuck your shirt in, this book
is for you. What Jon Paul Fiorentino is up to is sly and self-effacing,
 deeply real and hilarious. Stripmalling is an absolute bender.
— Emily Schultz, author of Joyland and Heaven Is Small.