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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Mammother!! Crazy and sad and needs to be made into a movie - with puppets maybe? ( ) This work is special and beautiful, like a small yet defiant flower standing alone in the sun, or a perfectly smoothed rock come upon unexpectedly. And yet, if you asked me what it's about (as a co-worker did the other day) I would be hard-pressed to come up with a satisfactory answer. Love? Loss and mourning? The only haircut worth giving? The simple beauty of this book is enjoyably baffling. I never quite knew what to expect but it was all about the ride. The writing and language made me feel in ways only really comparable to Richard Brautigan or parts of Vonnegut or Tom Robbins. Words that when strung together create alchemical fizzy magic in your brain and chest. In the end maybe God's finger is nothing more than the exquisite joy/pain of existence itself. Side note: I enjoyed the shout out to Mother Foucault's Books in Portland (acknowledgements). One of my favorite independent bookstores and a must stop when I am up that way. And good job featherproof books for creating a high quality physical object. It was pure pleasure to hold and read. It's high time for a Pie Time. no reviews | add a review
The people of Pie Time are suffering from God's Finger, a mysterious plague that leaves its victims dead with a big hole through their chests. In each hole is a random consumer product. Mano Medium, a sensitive, young cigarette-factory worker in love, does his part by quitting the factory to work double-time as Pie Time's replacement barber and butcher, and by holding the things found in the holes of the newly dead. However, the more people die, the bigger Mano becomes. XO, the power-hungry corporation bent on overtaking Pie Time, and Father Mothers, the bumbling priest, have their own ideas about how to capitalize on God's Finger. By contrast, and powered by honoring his own lost loves, Mano fights to resist this exploitation by teaching death to those who can't afford to survive it. As Pie Time and Mano both grow irrevocably, Mano must make a decision about how he can best fit into his own life. With a large cast of unusual characters, each struggling with their own complex and tangled relationships to death, money, and love, Mammother is a fabulist's tale of how we hold on and how we let go in a rapidly growing world. No library descriptions found. |
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