With only a few set rules to bind the ten chapters together (each vignette includes a Chinese Dragon, a mention of Carnival, etc.), ABECEDARIUM follows the protagonist Fex-a post-industrial, pre-apocalyptic Everyman-through the absurdities of a world that forces him to act always in his own self interest. Fex's anachronistic tour of history leads him to France during the Nazi occupation, a steak-eating contest in the bowels of Arkansas, a Sotheby's auction of his much-coveted DNA, and a nightmarish reality-TV show that delights in his contractual obligation to simultaneously observe and participate. Nauseating calla lilies, the human genome, and a talking dog possessed by the devil all play integral roles in the aggregate of meaninglessness Fex boldly confronts, disassembles, and reshapes into the genetic code of the entire explosive novel.

Praise for Abecedarium

"Sleek like a culture-jamming missile, satisfying like a cheap bottle of wine, ferocious like a genetically modified Carnival Dragon, Abecedarium rolls all three into one mother of a tale."

- Raymond Federman