Swallowing a Donkey's Eye

Paul Tremblay

FARM WANTS YOU!

Farm is the mega-conglomerate food supplier for City, populated with rabidly bureaucratic superiors, and sexually deviant tour guides dressed in chicken and duck suits. City is sprawling, technocratic, and rests hundreds of feet above the coastline on the creaking shoulders of a giant wooden pier. When the narrator’s single mother, whom he left behind in City, falls out of contact, he fears the worst: his mother is homeless and subsequently to be deported under City to the Pier. On his desperate search to find his mother, he encounters ecoterrorists wearing plush animal suits, City’s all-powerful Mayor who is infatuated with magic refrigerators and outlaw campaigns, and an over-sexed priest who may or may not have ESP, but who is most certainly his deadbeat dad.

Whether rebelling against regimented and ridiculous Farm life, exploring the consumer-obsessed world of City, experiencing the suffering of the homeless in Pier, or confronting the secrets of his own childhood, Swallowing a Donkey’s Eye’s narrator is a hilarious, neurotic, and rage-filled Quixote searching for his mother, his own dignity, and the meaning of humanity.

Published
2012
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Paul Tremblay

Paul Tremblay is a name that resonates with horror and psychological thriller fans who are seeking stories that blur the lines between reality and terror. Known for his ability to stir unease with the simplest of settings, Tremblay’s works are haunting because they don’t just delve into the macabre—they dive deep into the darkest corners of the human mind. A native of Massachusetts, Tremblay’s early love for writing was nurtured by his fascination with the unsettling and the unknown. His first novel, The Little Sleep, introduced readers to a world of noir-inspired psychological intrigue, setting the stage for what would become a defining…