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A review by doomfiction
Zerostrata by Andersen Prunty
5.0
Imagine a movie written by Wes Anderson that is directed by Michel Gondry - you'll have something close to Andersen Prunty's "Zerostrata".
The book focuses around a lost young man named Hansel who is trying his hardest to find his place in the world. After a few years of soul searching, Hansel returns home in hopes to rekindle any kind of happiness that may have been left over from his childhood.
But his strange, eccentric family doesn't make it an easier on him. His father has become a superhero, his mother is a basketcase who suffers from all of the side-effects listed on the side of her medicine bottles, and his brother has been away from the family for just as long as he has, except he has never left the house - instead he locks himself in the basement and composes noise symphonies. His only hope of happiness lies in his childhood treehouse, Zerostrata.
Hansel eventually becomes infatuated with a girl named, yup - you guessed it, Gretel. Their story is touching, fun, and out of this world (literally).
Prunty is a bizarro master. The reader instantly becomes emotionally entangled with his characters and where they're going.
If you think bizarro means odd, horrific, and ultraviolent - read Zerostrata. You'll never look at bizarro fiction the same again.
The book focuses around a lost young man named Hansel who is trying his hardest to find his place in the world. After a few years of soul searching, Hansel returns home in hopes to rekindle any kind of happiness that may have been left over from his childhood.
But his strange, eccentric family doesn't make it an easier on him. His father has become a superhero, his mother is a basketcase who suffers from all of the side-effects listed on the side of her medicine bottles, and his brother has been away from the family for just as long as he has, except he has never left the house - instead he locks himself in the basement and composes noise symphonies. His only hope of happiness lies in his childhood treehouse, Zerostrata.
Hansel eventually becomes infatuated with a girl named, yup - you guessed it, Gretel. Their story is touching, fun, and out of this world (literally).
Prunty is a bizarro master. The reader instantly becomes emotionally entangled with his characters and where they're going.
If you think bizarro means odd, horrific, and ultraviolent - read Zerostrata. You'll never look at bizarro fiction the same again.