A Feast of Hungry Ghosts

- Wind Up Bird Chronicles meets Don Quixote -Set in contemporary Taipei, Taiwan, this darkly ironic satire challenges both Identitarian Liberal and Religious Conservative elitist thought regarding our social contract with institutionalized memory, sex, race, and desire.An amnesiac expat teacher searches for the author of controversial writings he forgets he himself writes. He finds a magic helmet that imprints him with the Ganesh spirit - 私たちの象 - and discovers a mountain temple where corporate, Chinese-led transnational gangs abduct victims into forced labor and sex slavery.Hunted by a rogue CIA-puppeted, gargantuan hybrid mech-devil-human - メカ 悪魔 人間 - that tries to “disappear” him and his secrets using a technocratic global psy-ops, gamified goon squad of green hags, dopplegangers, idiots, and thugs, he escapes the island and, after many years of prison-like suppression, publishes the writings. This is the story . . .Satisfy your real political hunger during the holiday season with seriously scary, funhouse magic!- Rated R (All Triggers Warning)- Prologue, Nine Chapters, Afterword- Literary Novel (ironic satire) - 192 pages (with Notes, References, Bibliographies, Index) - 301 pages Read more