![]() Along with other “social losers,” he represents the United States in a model UN conference, unaccountably wins a spelling bee and takes part in a science fair during which the plants in a competing hydroponics garden are exposed as marijuana. He arrives in the United States with a strong accent and a strong distaste for everything American, including his host family: “vast cow father, pig dog brother, chicken mother, and cat sister.” While planning his rather murky act of terrorism (“Code Name: Operation Havoc”), Pygmy begins to accommodate himself to American life, especially high school. ![]() In this wildly experimental text, Palahniuk ( Snuff, 2008, etc.) creates such a compelling character in Pygmy that we accept the boy’s biases and epithets as completely appropriate. A series of dispatches written in fractured and occasionally hilarious English suck readers into the mind of exchange student and would-be terrorist Pygmy. ![]()
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