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An anthropologist and his daughter travel to Kermunkachunk, the capital of Chalazia, to conduct research for an ethnography on the Chalazian Mafia Faction (a splinter group of the Chalazian Children''s Theater). The book takes place over the course of a night at the Bar Pulpo, Kermunkachunk''s #1 spoken-word karaoke bar. Moreover, it''s Thursday, Father/Daughter Nite, when the bar is frequented by actual fathers and daughters as well as couples cosplaying fathers and daughters.

Somehow emanating from the letters on an optometrist''s eye chart, from karaoke screens in the bar, and from posters on a piazza that''s the scene of phantasmagorical and unending mob wars, Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit relentlessly pulls the rug out from under itself, leaving you suspended in a state of perpetual exhilaration.

Leyner, one of the most blazingly imaginative and influential writers of the last thirty years, has not only written his funniest novel, he''s broken through to s

Daughter Waiting for Her Drunk Father to Return

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      Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 08/12/2022
      ISBN13: 9780316560474, 978-0316560474
      ISBN10: 0316560472

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      An anthropologist and his daughter travel to Kermunkachunk, the capital of Chalazia, to conduct research for an ethnography on the Chalazian Mafia Faction (a splinter group of the Chalazian Children''s Theater). The book takes place over the course of a night at the Bar Pulpo, Kermunkachunk''s #1 spoken-word karaoke bar. Moreover, it''s Thursday, Father/Daughter Nite, when the bar is frequented by actual fathers and daughters as well as couples cosplaying fathers and daughters.

      Somehow emanating from the letters on an optometrist''s eye chart, from karaoke screens in the bar, and from posters on a piazza that''s the scene of phantasmagorical and unending mob wars, Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit relentlessly pulls the rug out from under itself, leaving you suspended in a state of perpetual exhilaration.

      Leyner, one of the most blazingly imaginative and influential writers of the last thirty years, has not only written his funniest novel, he''s broken through to s

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