Saturday, September 24, 2016

Five of the best books where insanity is normalized

Brian Evenson's latest book is The Warren.

One of his five favorite books where insane characters come to be taken for or treated as normal, as shared at Tor.com:
Magnus Mills, The Restraint of Beasts

A brilliant comic novel about three hapless comic fencing installers who keep having things go wrong. When someone is accidentally killed, they react to the death in an absurd manner and quickly are back to installing their fences. When another accident happens when their boss is there, the reaction, as in Gray’s story, is completely other than what we expect.
Read about another entry on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue