Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
A man named Cook has to inform people their houses are bound to collapse while attempting to keep his own home life from falling apart. He spends his days inspecting people's crawl spaces. He catalogs the filth and photographs the decay. Civilized life is a house that is rotting. High on legal weed and searching for answers, Cook works alongside similar riffraff to try and make money and save the future. That is until a bad sales month spirals out into a quantum stay at a surreal Ohio hotel. New friendships are made. Old curses are dealt with. And the local police force is put to the test. BAD FOUNDATIONS is a comedic whirlwind of American Absurdism, we get to follow along and see what will and won't fall.
Synopsis
Bad Foundations is a comedic absurdist novel about a home foundation inspector whose own home life is falling apart.Cook does not have an ordinary job. He spends his days inspecting people's crawl spaces, cataloging their filth and photographing the decay. At his other job, as a father, he has to learn how to bond with his teenage daughter, but that's hard to do when covered in spider webs.
High on legal weed and searching for answers to life's mysteries, Cook works alongside similar colorful characters trying to make money and save for the future. That is until a bad sales month spirals out into a quantum stay at a surreal Ohio hotel.
New friendships are made, old curses are dealt with, and the local police force is put to the test. Told in a stylized working-class voice, Brian Allen Carr is a true raconteur of the American Midwest.