Gil is a loser. He works at McDonalds and still lives with Mother. But that’s all about to change because Gil has an ace up his sleeve: the biggest, baddest barnyard bird the world has ever seen. When Odysseus Rex hits the local cockfighting ring, there’ll be hell to pay… ‘cause this is gunna be his year, damnit!
Olivia Dufault’s YEAR OF THE ROOSTER is an “astonishingly entertaining”, bizarrely comedic underdog story for our violent times. It’s Tennessee Williams, but the rose-coloured glasses have been ripped off. It’s Homer’s Odyssey, set in the backstreets of Oklahoma. It’s beautiful and appalling, like a Happy Meal at 3am.
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