KARAMEL

The Littlest Hitler

Welcome to the world of Ryan Boudinot, where a little boy who innocently dresses up as Hitler for Halloween suffers the consequences; where besotted office workers tend to show up to work covered in live bees; and where the children of the future are required to kill off their parents-ideally with an ice pick-in order to be accepted to the college of their choice. Unable to change the world, but unwilling to give up on it, Boudinot’s characters may vibrate with rage or be suffused with regret, but they never entirely lose their sense of fun, however perverse it may be.

“Funny ha-ha, funny weird and funny heartbreaking, Boudinot’s debut invokes and indicts America’s schizophrenic contradictions, especially in the title story [which] contains the three funniest lines ever written… [F]iction that is not a mirror of our times but an exit strategy from them. Follow him.” – Eye Weekly

216 pages, trade paperback.
Counterpoint.
8” X 5.5” X .5”