“So I guess I don’t feel like I seek strangeness out—I feel like we’re all surrounded by it—but there’s so much bewildering noise in our culture right now, at such a deafening and constant volume, that it’s easy for me to become inured to the strangeness of any ‘ordinary’ Tuesday.”
I assume it’s intriguing because it’s about swamps, madmen and alligators — among other things. Plus the cover is just gorgeous.