In The President''s Parasite, Jim Musgrave resurrects all that has gone missing in today''s literature: originality. The title story is a Kafkaesque piece from the point-of-view of an intellectual tapeworm trapped inside a moronic president, and the satirical impact is worthy of Swift. The other stories range from a widower trapped inside the Clock Tower in Baghdad that he constructed, to a baseball pitcher who becomes a living vegetable after a batted ball strikes his head. All in all, there is something for everyone in this collection of 30 eye-popping stories from a truly gifted author.
The President's Parasite will be on sale in paperback at all major online bookstores begining the middle of July. Here are some comments by other authors:
"Jim Musgrave just never stops . . . taking hostages from the first sentence of The President's Parasite, he knows exactly how to apply the screws. Intensely political, fantastically theatrical, burlesquely carnival -- the human cycle has rarely been so bared. This accessible, wound-tight work is easily among my favorite reads of the year. I begged him for mercy and got no quarter in the end." -- Brian Ames, author of Eighty-Sixed
"Jim Musgrave's dark characters branch out beyond the typical 'dysfunctional family dinner' or 'dysfunctional family holiday.' Simply put, he consistently pits the ethical good of humanity vs. its supreme and sickening evil, making The President's Parasite 100% entertaining."--Timothy Gager, author, Twenty-Six Pack
"Sharp. Cutting. The President’s Parasite brings a new edge to the literary world, as Musgrave delves into our imaginations and holds us rapt with attention from beginning to end."--Rea Frey, author of A Woman's Ring
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