<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Boucher makes the world come alive by making language come alive. --George Saunders, <i>Lincoln in the Bardo</i></b><i><br></i> <p/>A WILDLY INVENTIVE, HEARTBREAKING, AND HILARIOUS NEW NOVEL ABOUT A MAN WHOSE LIFE IS FALLING APART . . . IN VERY BIZARRE WAYS . . . <br> After his wife announces on Twitter that she's leaving him, Christopher's life in small-town Coolidge just goes from one catastrophe to another. He contracts a strange illness that divides him in half, undergoes a failure competition, and is driven to join a cult called The Unloveables. How did it all get this bad? How can he regain his bearings, and find meaning and love once again? <p/> Heartfelt and riotously imaginative, <i> Big Giant Floating Head</i> is the daring, dazzling account of a man's struggle with love, loss and redemption.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>PRAISE FOR <i>BIG GIANT FLOATING HEAD</i> <p/>"Chris Boucher's <i>Big Giant Floating Head</i> plays by an improbable logic all its own, and is heartbreaking and hilarious in the manner of Brautigan and Flann O'Brien, or a Krazy Kat comic redrawn by M.C. Escher." - Jonathan Lethem <p/> "This is a novel of mad vitality, much invention, and serious fun."--Kevin Barry, author of <i>City of Bohane, </i>winner of the IMPAC Literary Award <p/> "Hilarious, dark and stunningly surreal. ..This novel will surprise and delight, make you laugh out loud even as it breaks your heart."--Mona Awad, author of <i>Bunny</i> <br><i> </i> <br>PRAISE FOR <i>GOLDEN DELICIOUS</i> <br>What a crazed, beautiful book . . . Boucher makes the world come alive by making language come alive. --George Saunders, author of <i>Lincoln in the Bardo <br></i> <br>A master of evoking compassion through absurd, shape-shifting land-scapes . . . As wacky as it is recognizable, Boucher's capricious world filled with delightful wordplay is strikingly vivid, funny, and moving. --Booklist <p/>Infused with a strange brilliance . . .;Funny, and also deeply, improbably moving.--The Millions <p/>Christopher Boucher's <i>Golden Delicious </i>is the best kind of modern fiction: inventive, expansive, with endless heart and narrative verve... Read this book now." --Joe Meno, author of <i>Hairstyles of the Damned</i> <p/>"Bonkers, in the best way...The beauty of Boucher's concept is that <i>Golden Delicious</i> can afford to be an utter hodgepodge peppered with nearly inexplicable happenings and still make an elegant sort of sense." --Electric Literature <p/>"<i>Golden Delicious</i>, is probably like nothing you've ever read...Boucher writes simultaneously very seriously and with a palpable sense of delight in words and also in the world. It's delicious." --The Rumpus<i><i><br> </i></i><br> "An odd, clever, and thoroughly enjoyable experience." --<i>Publishers Weekly </i>(starred review)<i><br></i> <br>PRAISE FOR <i>HOW TO KEEP YOUR VOLKSWAGEN ALIVE</i> <p/>Strange and dazzling . . . Through all the insanity and dizzying leaps of logic that make up Boucher's world are a series of absolutely human and recognizable truths. --Emily St. John Mandel, author of <i>Station Eleven</i> <p/>Boucher's first novel is one of the most original books you will read this year. --Roxane Gay, author of <i>Bad Feminist</i> <p/>"As moving as it is fun, <i>How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive</i> is definitely the next book you should read." --Adam Levin, author of <i>The Instructions</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>CHRISTOPHER BOUCHER is author of the widely praised novels <i>Golden Delicious </i>and <i>How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive</i>. He teaches literature and writing at Boston College, and is editor of the literary journal <i>Post Road</i>. He lives in Northampton, MA.