Anthony.s compulsively readable debut novel stars Rovar Pfliegman, who sells meat out of a bus
in Virginia. Rovar is a peculiar, troll-like man: he is short and hairy, has not spoken since
childhood, keeps a pet beetle and lives in the same broken-down bus that houses his meat business.
But perhaps the most remarkable thing about Rovar is his precarious singularity. He is the last of
the Pfliegmans and, by his own account, he is falling apart. Although he halfheartedly seeks
treatment for his various ailments, he seems far more bent on fulfilling the destiny of self-
destruction all Pfliegmans (according to Rovar) are subject to. Rovar.s explanation of his family
sprawls deep into the past, probing beyond his chaotic childhood all the way back to the origins
of the Pfliegman clan in premedieval Hungary. Along the way, the narrative nods to all sorts of
greats.Kafka, Rushdie, Darwin and Grass, to name a few. But Anthony.s style.funny, immediate and
unapologetically cerebral.carves out a space all its own.

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