Name: Pygmy
ISBN: 9780307389817

Chuck Palahniuk

Pygmy

Pygmy--a young adult from a totalitarian state, disguised as an exchange student--plans a terrorist attack and depicts U.S. Midwestern life through the eyes of a hateful, indoctrinated little killer, in this double-edged satire of American xenophobia by the best-selling author of Fight Club.

Patrick Book

Everyone who has previously reviewed this book on here needs to settle down.

Alejandro AR

Of course Palahniuk can be raw, aggressive and dirty, but Pygmy really details a good story that reflects on our daily perception of racism, nationalism, and the sexual nature of humans. Very nice write up, and very good ending. As always.

Agent Number 67, nicknamed Pygmy for his diminutive size, arrives in the United States from his totalitarian homeland (a mash-up of North Korea, Cuba, Communist-era China, and Nazi-era Germany), as an 'exchange student' into the welcoming arms of his Simpsons-spinoff Midwestern host family.

Pat G.

The story had me in a few moments, and really did get better as the book went on… but mostly lost due to the use of weird “accent” that it’s written in. This ruined it for me, almost DNF early but stuck through in case it got better. The point of this seems to strengthen that the character is foreign but ended up being mostly confusing, every time I put it down it took me a whole chapter to get used to the accent again after picking it back up. I get the satire between entire world’s communism vs. USA capitalism, just a bit overkill for me. Trigger warning: brutal rape scene within the first few chapters.

Grace McCarter

An experimental novel. I found the language jarring as hell, but beat my way through to the end regardless. Pygmy had its finer points, but I wouldn't read this again!

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