The Ceramic Owl Incident

When Chloe Parch accidentally bakes her mother-in-law's grotesque ceramic owl into a tuna casserole, she sets off a chain of absurd events that ripple through an entire apartment block. The owl's flight from the dinner table to the alley below collides with lives already teetering between comedy and tragedy: a noir-obsessed husband, a melodramatic fiancée, a melancholic loner, a meticulous taxidermist, and a retired insurance adjuster who sees liability in everything.
From a ruined proposal to existential alley philosophy, from forensic cataloging to noir narration, each character interprets the owl through their own worldview. What begins as slapstick chaos becomes a mirror of human performance, meaning-making, and collapse. Darkly comic and sharply observant, The Ceramic Owl Incident is a satirical exploration of how a single absurd object can unravel marriages, proposals, philosophies, and identities.
It is a novel about the fragile theater of everyday life - where comedy and tragedy share the same stage, and even the ugliest relic can become the center of a story.