Fiction - Absurdist

Doctor Nigel Fetherstonhaugh (pronounced Fanshaw) leaves the dreary museum he curates in London for the job of a lifetime, head of works on paper in one of the world's biggest, most prestigious museums: the Algur and Elizabeth Paddocks Museum of Art and Antiquities in...

A homecoming tale unlike any other, The Imagined Homecoming of Icarus Isakov recounts the fantastical return home of goblin anti-hero and puckish narrator, Icarus Isakov.When Icarus receives a mysterious letter from the long-lost girl next door, he returns to the ghost town of his...

This is your brain.This is your brain on drugs.This is your brain splattered against the wall.All Rob wanted was to treat his friends to a chill weekend reunion in a secluded mansion. How could he have predicted the edibles from the convenience store would...

Pushcart Prize-winning author Chris Campanioni tells a story about the silences of generational trauma and the tenuous conditions in which stories get passed down in migration, a surface flimsy enough to allow the traffic between novel, notebook, reportage, and myth.While collecting the scattered stories...

Jacy Morris' collection is an assault on Indigenous identity and stereotypes, an exploration of what it means to be Indigenous in a world where identity is commercialized and weaponized. 13 stories of the past, present, and future, all exploring different aspects of our world....

Author: Erik RaskISBN-13: 9798893166644Publisher: Selfpublishing.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/09/2024Pages: 100Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 7.00h x 4.25w x 0.24d

A YouTube men's fragrance and fashion influencer wanders across an unfamiliar city to meet his estranged daughter on the 'day of his eternal damnation'.On his way, he encounters a host of unsettling experiences and strange characters including 'the cloud lady' an elderly woman with...

Funny, fast-moving, and thought-provoking, Five Minutes from Chaos tells the story of Charlie Neb, a philosophy professor who spends his days lecturing to anxiety-filled frat boys and cheerleaders.One day he tells a joke and is canceled. The problem is that neither he nor his...

A new collection of stories by Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Gary Barwin that puts the fab in fabulist.Scandal at the Alphorn Factory: New and Selected Short Fiction, 1984-2024 couples brand new and uncollected stories with selections of the most playful and ambitious of Barwin's...

Author: Mark DoyonISBN-13: 9798985035360Publisher: Wampus MultimediaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/17/2024Pages: 252Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d

Author: Sam PasternackISBN-10: 1954158297ISBN-13: 9781954158290Publisher: Humorist BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/21/2024Pages: 362Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

Author: Molly McGheeISBN-10: 1662602707ISBN-13: 9781662602702Publisher: Astra HouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2024Pages: 304Format: Paperback

In the tradition of Albert Camus, J. D. Salinger, and Osamu Dazai, the archetype of the savage young man at the precipice returns in Ben Faulkner's hypnotic debut, The Agonies. Armand Bernal is breaking apart. The trials of youth become a torrential odyssey of...

A quest for institutional survival, two subversive corporate employees, Sid Sidney a technician and Mia Monroe a would-be shadow artist, get caught up in the undertow of office-speak and bastardized metrics tracking printer glitches, insurance profits, lab's birdseed expenses, and pigeons' ping pong scores....

Force Majeure was called a "smashing debut novel" by the Kirkus Reviews upon its original publication in 1991. A sardonic and absurdly dark, yet hilarious take on the "business as usual" of Hollywood's twisted class system that proved Bruce Wagner was not just an...

"There is so much at play in this wondrous novel. Vi, struggling to place herself in any context that makes sense within the world, earnestly leads us into a wild experiment, to turn a blob into the man of her dreams, and I was...

Destitute in the desert, Jos? is resigned to a life of solitude and poetry until one day the bank comes knocking. Left with almost nothing, Jos? decides to honor his late Mama's wishes and travels to America to make it big. After a chance...

A young Los Angeles real estate developer consumed by power and political ambitions finds his orderly, upwardly mobile life thrown into chaos by the sudden appearance of his nutty mother, who's been deserted by T.'s now out-of-the-closet father After his mother's suicide attempt and...

Original, experimental, and charmingly nonsensical, Lewis Carroll's Alice'​s Adventures in Wonderland follows seven-year-old Alice down a rabbit hole and into the topsy-turvy dream world of Wonderland. In this fantastical place, food can shrink you to the size of a mouse, or turn you into...

First published in 1987 this novel has acquired something of a cult status among both cricket fans and those interested in experimental prose and bohemian lifestyles. It is set in Auckland in the 1980s and is a mixture of stream of conscious internal dialogue...

Humorous, heartfelt, and endearing, My Heart Belongs in an Empty Big Mac Container Buried Beneath the Ocean Floor is the story of a young man (as empty as the Big Mac container itself) facing depression head on, and learning to find beauty and hope...

A boisterous collection of surreal, darkly humorous short stories that will delight fans of George Saunders and Alice Munro From John Elizabeth Stintzi, the mind that created the daringly bizarre novel My Volcano, comes an electrifying collection of strange and dark tales.In the surreal,...

Author: J. CurtisISBN-13: 9798218456467Publisher: Tiny WorldsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/18/2024Pages: 90Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.19d

On a space station hovering relatively close to Earth, an alien scientist enhances common barnyard animals into sapient beings with superpowers. The chicken, the last to join Dr. Hash Browns' laboratory, has yet to demonstrate a superpower, prompting the others to call her Half-Baked....

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "You wouldn't expect a comic novel about a dictionary to be a thriller too, but this one is. In fact, [it] is also a mystery, love story (two of them) and cliffhanging melodrama." --The New York Times Book Review An award-winning...

From the author of Saint Lazarus Day and Other Stories comes The Barber's Collection, an original and poignant tragicomic novel brimming with searing humour and heartrending downfalls.Deinstitutionalization has just begun, yet it can't come soon enough for one infamous patient with a violent criminal...

On a simple trip to the grocery store, struggling businessman and father of four Mick Jansen discovers that he can turn people into giant worms. Haunted but intrigued by his newfound power, Mick tests its limits, wreaking havoc in the lives of everyone he...

We no longer have a cultural narrative in which we trust. Reason and logic are simply tools of the ruling class. Your story is simply your story, not to be generalized upon, and mine is mine. There is no authority, no common humanity, no...

Step Through the Looking Glass and into a whimsical dreamworld once more in this sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Join our heroine on afantastical journey where nonsense reigns supreme, chess pieces come to life, and logic is turned on its head. Lewis Carroll's...

David Wilson is on the lam. If he can stay ahead of the law long enough to finish his great novel, he just might be able to convince his ex-wife he's worth a damn. When a man who appears to be some sort of...

A short distance up the West Coast you will find Palmsvale. Home to a thriving movie industry some may say it is just another sun-drenched paradise, but there is much more to it than palm trees and suntans. Living among its citizens is a...

Yeah, so, no one's really precisely sure what to make of all this. The promotional blurbs here and herein are from people more eloquent than this person right now writing this, so the blurbs are actually where you want to look for an approximate...

Jon Ferguson's Three Forgotten Tales tenderly rewrite* the story of Jesus; his life, crucifixion, and legacy. *If you are a Christian you might be offended by some of the rewriting.Written mainly around imagined conversations between Jesus and Mary Magdalene, their son God, and an...

HARD_SCI-FI takes on HIGH_FINANCE at the black edge of WALL_STREET... where capital emerges from human yearning and declares it MUST GO ON.The ANALYST is a speculator in the ticker market, a picker of common stocks who makes a farcical bet and loses too much...

A trippy trek through America's virtual zeitgeist, Psychotropia blurs the lines between reality and illusion. Deepfakes, holograms, spy gadgets, and slapstick news flood the landscape, a testament to humanity's addiction to lurid escapism. That obsession engulfs retired journalist Liam Kohl after his psychic wife's...

A thrilling and eccentric novel about what it means to make art as a woman, and about the powerful forces of voyeurism, power, obsession, and online performance Woo Woo follows Sabine, a conceptual artist on the verge of a photo exhibition she hopes will...

In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a California billionaire who's promised a time machine that will make everything normal again--whatever that means.A whip-smart, absurdly funny debut novel for fans of Patricia Lockwood and Marlowe...

White Lotus meets Shaun of the Dead in this absurdist take on the wellness retreat.Our narrator and his accidental companion, K. Sohail, inadvertently find themselves on an island wellness retreat impersonating a couple, the Dhaliwals, who have probably been killed in a helicopter crash....

"[An] enjoyable comic fable . . ." --Wall Street JournalThis auspicious debut announces a bright new voice in comic suspense." --Publishers Weekly, Starred ReviewNot every fishmonger can be a secret agent.Journey to an unnamed mountainous country in central Europe at the end of the...

Ancient Mesopotamia, the Zodiac, and the land of the dead feature in this wildly surrealistic adventure story--Leonora Carrington's revolutionary second novel, long out of print. The Stone Door is an omen, an incantation, and an adventure story rolled into one. Built in layers like...

Soon to be a major motion picture starring John Cusack Mr. Quark is a down-on-his luck pot-smuggler hiding out in the mountains of Colombia with his dog, High Pockets, and a small band of banditos led by the irascible Jose. Only months before, these...

Thirteen tall tales about the role facial hair has played in athletics and competition over the years, Sporting Moustaches puts the "ache" in "moustache." Whiskers are wrapped around sticks, bats, clubs, paddles, chess pieces, and shotglasses, woven into ropes, nets, arrow strings, and even...

A genre-bending collection of dramatic monologues shining a light on the anxious, self-directed gaze that defines contemporary consciousness. Borrowing stylistic elements from the prose poem, faux memoir, online diatribe, and philosophical investigation, the twenty-five dramatic monologues in Spencer Gordon's genre-bending collection shine a light...

How far would you go to achieve the "American Dream?"Timothy and Cynthia Lawson are on their way to having it all. But when they move into their dream home on an idyllic cul-du-sac they soon start to realize that not everything is as it...

Jo was being told to grow up and take control of her life, so she begins dating Orlando, the local drunk driver, a man widely hated and rejected by his hometown. Swearing they have the wrong idea about him, Jo sets off to prove...

In this rough saga of psychological horrors and wild circumstance, several people find themselves out of place in this natural world of manners and concrete. In a course to finally belong, Sylvia struggles to see what's so great about loving the reality of jobs...

For fans of Interior Chinatown and American War, a surreal, hilarious, and sneakily profound debut novel that casts our current climate of gun violence and environmental destruction in a surprising new mold. "A stunningly brilliant novel. One of those books that will follow you...

A New York Times Notable Book: Darkly comic fables of modern life from a "major discovery" whose "writing gets in your bloodstream like a fever" (The Washington Post Book World). A housewife with a ravenous lust for the adolescent boy who mows her lawn...

Della Comb is the queen of her hive. She's only in her early twenties, but she's already managed to build an empire selling drugs to junkies who are looking for the ultimate escape. The key to her success is that she manufactures her drugs...

A poisoned man dreams of astronauts. Stories included in this volume: "Nostalgia - Part One," "Negative Waves," "The Church of Death and Nothingness," "Apokalypsis," and "Nostalgia - Part Two."Author: William III PauleyISBN-10: 196019013XISBN-13: 9781960190130Publisher: Doom FictionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/03/2023Pages: 114Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w...