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From the writer of The Wilds, which Web publishers Regular called "an excellent combination of feelings and dirt, wit and horror," comes a debut book that is part dystopian satire, part Southern Gothic extra tall story: a disturbing yet entertaining romp via a surreal New South where newfangled medical technologies change the framework of the human brain, and genetically improved feral pets or animals ravage the blighted scenery. Down on his success but still pining for his ex-wife, SC taxidermist Romie Futch spends his evenings drunkenly surfing the web before passing out on his sofa. In the last-ditch try to pay his mortgage, he replies with an advertisement and becomes a study subject in an test 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 increased taxidermist, who once aspired to be an designer, returns to his hometown prepared to revolutionize his work and revive his failed relationship. As Romie monitors down specimens for his sophisticated animatronic taxidermy dioramas, he produces an Ahab-caliber obsession with bagging "Hogzilla", a thousand-pound feral hog that has been terrorizing Hampton State. Cruising hog-hunting websites, he discovers that this lab-spawned monster possesses peculiar features. Taken into an absurd and murky underworld of biotech operatives, FDA providers, and environmental activists, Romie becomes entangled in the enigma of Hogzilla's roots. Checking out the interplay between aspect and culture, biology and technology, actuality and art, The New and Better Romie Futch probes the mysteries of memory and consciousness, offering a darkly comic yet heartfelt undertake the contemporary real human predicament.
