我的身體、我的遭遇，都是老天爺的玩笑嗎？
無所謂！即使離不開這一切，
我還是能靠自己的想像飛上天，
我要去冥王星吃早餐！
他的出生，似乎是上天開的玩笑！是個棄嬰已夠令人鼻酸，生父竟然是個神父！從小，他不停努力在撫平自己與世界的格格不入。男伴喜歡談打仗，他卻喜歡裁縫；他們喜歡橫衝直撞的肢體暴力，他卻只要美好的音樂、美麗的衣裳和香奈兒五號，優雅綽約的妝點自己。
他不是怪胎，卻老是被視為怪胎，有著最不同於常人的際遇。他只想和平常人一樣，穩穩的踏著生命的每一步，可是他總是一路顛跛，連個最起碼的平穩都談不上。
他是派翠克．咪咪．布蘭登(Mr.Patrick”Pussy”Braden)，一個從出生就始終「選錯邊」的人，這個故事就從他被視為炸彈客的時刻開始……
《冥王星的早餐》(BreakfastonPluto)為愛爾蘭文壇巨擘派屈克．馬克白近年來最受矚目的作品。他以輕俏的筆調、充滿想像的意境，呈現了一個性別錯置的男孩所忍負的沉重命運。然而，當一個人無力去對抗整個大環境，無法扭轉自身的處境時，又該以何種姿態去面對？馬克白藉由這個男孩的角色，給了我們最深刻而迷人的想望：
只有想像力能讓你重獲自由，讓你飛上天際，讓你去到
冥‧王‧星‧吃‧早‧餐！
★本書中譯本《冥王星早餐》由寶瓶文化出版。
Breakfast on Pluto,
Patrick McCabe's lyrical and haunting new novel, became a #1 bestseller in Ireland, stayed on the bestseller list for months, and was nominated for the Booker Prize, one of the world's most prestigious literary awards. With wonderful delicacy and subtle insight and intimation, McCabe creates Mr. Patrick "Pussy" Braden, the enduringly and endearingly hopeful hero(ine) whose gutsy survival and yearning quest for love resonate in and drive the glimmering, agonizing narrative in which the troubles are a distant and immediate echo and refrain. Twenty years ago, her ladyship escaped her hometown of Tyreelin, Ireland, fleeing her foster mother Whiskers (prodigious Guinness-guzzler, human chimney) and her mad household, to begin a new life in London. There, in blousey tops and satin miniskirts, she plies her trade, often risking life and limb amongst the flotsam and jetsam that fill the bars of Piccadilly Circus. But suave businessmen and lonely old women are not the only dangers that threaten Pussy. It is the 1970's and fear haunts the streets of London and Belfast as the critical mass of history builds up, and Pussy is inevitably drawn into a maelstrom of violence and tragedy destined to blow his fragile soul asunder. Brilliant, startling, profound and soaring, Breakfast on Pluto combines light and dark, laughter and pain, with such sensitivity, directness and restraint that the dramatic impact reverberates in our minds and hearts long after the initial impression.