My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist, Paperback/Mark Leyner

Welcome to Mark Leyner's America, where you can order gallium arsenide sushi at a roadside diner, get loaded on a cocktail of growth hormones and anabolic steroids, and support your habit by appearing on TV game shows. Welcome to a wildly post-Einsteinian fictional universe where the locals include a speech pathologist with a waterbug fetish, a kamikaze airline pilot, and the lead singer for Brazil's most notoriously nihilistic samba band. About the Author: Mark Leyner is the author of two novels, Et Tu, Babe and The Tetherballs of Bougainville ; two collections of stories , I Smell Esther Williams and Other Stories and My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist ; and a collection of fiction, plays, and journalism, Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog . His work has also appeared in The New Yorker , Esquire , The New Republic , George , and Harper's.