From the bestselling author of Thank You for Smoking and Make
Russia Great Again comes a comic tour de force, the story of one man's
"lively and funny" (New York Journal of Books) journey through
lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic.
During the pandemic, an aging screenwriter is holed up in a coastal
South Carolina town with his beloved second wife, Peaches. He's been
binge-eating for a year and developed a notable rapport with the local
fast-food chain Hippo King. He struggles to work--on a ludicrous
screenplay about a Nazi attempt to kidnap FDR and, naturally, an article
for Etymology Today on English words of Carthaginian origin. He's told
Peaches so often about the origins of the word mayonnaise that she's
developed an aversion to using the condiment. He thinks he has Covid.
His wife thinks he is losing his mind. In short, your typical pandemic
worries. Things were going from bad to worse even before his doctor
suggested a battery of brain tests. He knows what that means: dementia!
But even in these scary times, there are plenty of things to do to
distract him. His iPhone is fat-shaming him. He's. been trying to read
Proust and thinks the French novelist missed his true calling as a
parfumier. And he's discovered nefarious Russian influence on the local
coroner's face. Why is Putin so keen to control who decides who died
peacefully and who by foul play in Pimento County. Could it be the local
military base?
Has Anyone Seen My Toes? is a "laugh-out-loud" (Publishers Weekly)
romp through a time that has been anything but funny.
