Nude in Tub: Stories of Quillifarkeag, Maine

Don't read this book if you can't take a joke. Read it if you want hilarious and macabre insights into the human heart. Read it if you find our violent world both troubling and fascinating. Many of the stories are shocking--both in terms of their subject matter and their quality. Well worth checking out.

Fans of the odd need look no further, Nude in Tub is your book. Dark humor abounds in these stories of small-town life viewed from a weird and often warped perspective. Written in a style that might be called Garrison Keillor meets Stephen King, the author creates a world of rather humdrum characters who just happen to have a few quirks. This isn't Lake Wobegon! The residents tend to behave in rather bizarre fashion and suffer grotesquely bad luck. In fact, grotesque may be the best word to describe this book. Just understand that in this instance "grotesque" is good!While not a book for everyone, those who enjoy fiction written with a disturbing and unsettling sense of humor should take a chance on Nude in Tub. I was hooked from the very first line of the first chapter, "To die in winter in a far northern place is to become a storage problem."