Flamingos

Faced by hospitalizations, therapies and rehabilitations, the characters in Flamingos are in a permanent state of psychological mutation. In exchange for melancholy reminiscences about their mundane existence, false messiah Simon holds out a promise of release from the drudgeries and depression of Middle America. Grant Maierhofer's polyphonic voice formally recalls such Modernist masterpieces as Virginia Woolf's The Waves. Nonetheless, this book is wholly his own, a brilliant, idiosyncratic exploration of the fragmented twenty-first-century mind. --Back cover.