Although we are not free, and we will never leave Auschwitz, I am glad to know we’re on the same page again.
“What if Otto is dead?” Frannie 2 says.
“Adolf and the White Angel must die,” I say, “so that someday Kidland can be rebuilt.”
“But we can help rebuild it!”
Frannie smacks her lips disapprovingly. “We aren’t children anymore. We’re products of Auschwitz, we’re freaks. We can never live in a society of children again.”
Frannie closes the gate and takes my good hand. I offer my left thumb to Frannie 2. Together, we face Auschwitz. We march toward Dead Kid Hill and the ruins of Toy Division. “I know it sounds terrible,” I say, “but right now this kind of feels like home.”
Frannie’s torso widens into a smile and the sky brightens.
In Auschwitz Square, the morning siren screams.
From the Inside Flap
“This book is a Eurosleaze fairytale that’s better than the Da Vinci Code and should be on Oprah’s Book List! Pierce is one of the weirdest, most imaginative writers around. Toxie-approved!”
“I am slightly afraid of it. It looks kind of contagious.”
“In an era when very little remains shocking, Pierce might have actually managed to create a genuinely disturbing work of fiction, the literary equivalent of Schindler’s List rewritten by the Marquis De Sade and filmed as a Tim Burton animated feature.”
“Truly disgusting! A fascinating mix of William Burroughs, David Cronenberg and Lenny Bruce if you were to take all three and drop them into a blender. Pierce is a writer with a truly warped imagination.”
“Strange? Check. Fascinating? Check. Thought-provoking? Check. Fun to read? Yes. In between all the filth, there is humor […] a reading experience I will never forget.”
“If you are a fan of novels like Naked Lunch, Skin, or any other strange bit of fiction, you must read The Ass Goblins of Auschwitz… It’s one of the best entries in the Bizarro fiction genre.”
“A must read.”
“From the opening chapter up until the poetic melancholy coda, this book is a relentless journey.”
“It’s as if Ren & Stimpy made a Nazi exploitation movie!”
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The Ass Goblins of Auschwitz
Copyright 2009 by Cameron Pierce
Eraserhead Press
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