Coup de Torchon
I haven’t read <PERSON> but just from #BookstoreEmployeeContextClues I know his novels are not this funny. This is an out-and-out comedy, feat. 905
such gags as a falling-through-an-outhouse prank and <PERSON> saying deadpan that her shithead husband drew a stripe down their dog’s back so they could each pet their own half. The way it abruptly sobers up for moments of unwinking, horrific violence— THAT gives off <PERSON> to me. A little lost about the politics re: colonialism (you don’t shift a novel’s setting to French-occupied Senegal without some pointed intent) but generally I thought this was incredible and so so so funny, a miracle of balancing opposite tones (specifically, goofballery and terror). 905