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THE NEW AND IMPROVED ROMIE FUTCH
Down on his luck and still pining for his ex-wife, South Carolina taxidermist Romie Futch spends his evenings drunkenly surfing the Internet before passing out on his couch. In a last-ditch attempt to pay his mortgage, he replies to an ad and becomes a research subject in an experiment conducted by the Center for Cybernetic Neuroscience in Atlanta, Georgia.
After scientists download hifalutin humanities disciplines into their brains, Romie and his fellow guinea pigs start debating the works of Foucault and hashing out the intricacies of postmodern subjectivity. The enhanced taxidermist, who once aspired to be an artist, returns to his hometown ready to revolutionize his work and revive his failed marriage.
As Romie tracks down specimens for his elaborate animatronic taxidermy dioramas, he develops an Ahab-caliber obsession with bagging Hogzilla, a thousand-pound feral hog that has been terrorizing Hampton County. Cruising hog-hunting websites, he learns that this lab-spawned monster possesses peculiar traits. Pulled into an absurd and murky underworld of biotech operatives, FDA agents, and environmental activists, Romie becomes entangled in the enigma of Hogzilla's origins.
Julia Elliott's debut story collection, The Wilds, was chosen by Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Buzzfeed as one of the Best Books of 2014 and was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Her fiction has appeared in Tin House, the Georgia Review, Conjunctions, Fence, and other magazines. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and a Rona Jaffe Writer's Award. She teaches English and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.
After scientists download hifalutin humanities disciplines into their brains, Romie and his fellow guinea pigs start debating the works of Foucault and hashing out the intricacies of postmodern subjectivity. The enhanced taxidermist, who once aspired to be an artist, returns to his hometown ready to revolutionize his work and revive his failed marriage.
As Romie tracks down specimens for his elaborate animatronic taxidermy dioramas, he develops an Ahab-caliber obsession with bagging Hogzilla, a thousand-pound feral hog that has been terrorizing Hampton County. Cruising hog-hunting websites, he learns that this lab-spawned monster possesses peculiar traits. Pulled into an absurd and murky underworld of biotech operatives, FDA agents, and environmental activists, Romie becomes entangled in the enigma of Hogzilla's origins.
Julia Elliott's debut story collection, The Wilds, was chosen by Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Buzzfeed as one of the Best Books of 2014 and was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Her fiction has appeared in Tin House, the Georgia Review, Conjunctions, Fence, and other magazines. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and a Rona Jaffe Writer's Award. She teaches English and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.
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Published 2015-10-01 by Tin House Books |