Going Bovine: As Nuts as the Author

If you enjoy the movies of David Lynch, the comedy of Tim and Eric, or the craziness of Chuck Palahnuk (the Fight Club author), then I highly recommend for you Going Bovine by Libba Bray.

A boy with a dysfunctional family gets Mad Cow Disease.  He tries to find a doctor to cure it and fix some wounds in his family life.  The problem? He’s tripping like crazy.  The Mad Cow disease has set him on a hallucinatory voyage of adventure, danger, and vikings.  Somehow, these are a few of the more tame aspects of the work.

For goodness sake, look at the author.

SERIOUSLY.

But don’t be mistaken: this book won the American Library Association Printz Award for Young Adult Fiction written last year.