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Death Row Restaurant
Death Row Restaurant is a debut satire novel about a disenchanted flight attendant searching for "authentic experiences" who instead finds an unexpected opportunity running a restaurant staffed by serial killers.Flight attendant, Dave Aslin, circles the globe in search of true experiences that he's never quite found. When Dave meets a canceled child actor from the 1980's sitcom 'Diff'rent Strokes' who is planning a radically new restaurant concept, his life's itinerary is forever altered. The proposal is a restaurant housed inside the gas chamber at San Quentin prison and staffed entirely by serial killers.
Combining the craze for authentic restaurants and pop culture's love of serial killers, this debut novel balances satire with dark psychological horror to deliver poignant commentary on society's relationship to work. Death Row Restaurant gazes into the intersection between the serial killers we despise and the inevitable distortions of capitalism that shape our lives.
Combining the craze for authentic restaurants and pop culture's love of serial killers, this debut novel balances satire with dark psychological horror to deliver poignant commentary on society's relationship to work. Death Row Restaurant gazes into the intersection between the serial killers we despise and the inevitable distortions of capitalism that shape our lives.
Book Details
- Publisher: Clash Books
- Publish Date: Apr 2nd, 2024
- Pages: 260
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.59in - 0.86lb
- EAN: 9781955904971
- Categories: • Literary• Humorous - Dark Humor• Satire
About the Author
Daniel Gonzalez is the author of Death Row Restaurant. His work has appeared in The Lifted Brow, Hobart, The Fiddleback, Defenestration, Pravic, The American Book Review, Nonsite and other places. He lives in Evanston, Illinois and can be contacted on Twitter @DRRmarch2024.
Praise for this book
"Gonzalez has married Americans' childlike sense that TV characters are real people with the now-warped Horatio Alger notion that anyone can come up with the next big thing if one taps into the underbelly of fad fascinations, like celebrities' real-life downfalls and obsession with psychopathic spree killers. Around the edges flicker our common annoyances with aspects of everyday life from airline-travel protocol, to celebrity chefs, to theme restaurants, to the way failed relationships continue to affect us. With a style at once deadpan and tongue-in-cheek, Gonzalez has tweaked the definitions of representative, realistic and dystopian fiction." --Cris Mazza, Author of It's No Puzzle: A Memoir in Artifact and How to Leave a Country
"In a world of tradeoffs, how do we live an authentic life? Thus wonder a pair of earnest and loveable seekers so hungry for lives without duplicity or regret that they slip down a rabbit-hole proposition: that psychopaths will show them the way. Funny, upsetting, and unique, Death Row Restaurant is a prison-cooked satire that hits the spot, and throws away the key." --Alex Shakar, author of Luminarium