I’ll start, so as a teen I stumbled across a book called," Someone comes to town, someone leaves town." The synopsis caught me as it’s about a man with a mountain as a fathera washing machine as a mother and one brother that is dead and trying to harm him. I’ll admit some of the technical terms were too much for my developing mind but it has stuck with me all these years.

What is the wackiest / craziest book you’ve read and did you enjoy the ride?

  • electricidiot@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Chouette by Claire Oshetsky. I picked this one up in the store because the cover drew me in. I read the back of it, shook my head, read it again, shook my head again, and opened up. Here’s how it starts

    I dream I’m making tender love with an owl. The next morning I see talon marks across my chest that trace the path of my owl-lover’s embrace. Two weeks later I learn that I’m pregnant.

    You may wonder: How could such a thing come to pass between woman and owl?

    I, too, am astounded, because my owl-lover was a woman.

    And, oh yes, it gets so much weirder from there.