From the wild and wonderful mind of Gibby Haynes-world famous Butthole Surfers front man/lyricist and self-proclaimed eternal Texan adolescent-comes the surreal tale of seventeen-year-old Oscar Lester and his trusted dog, Mr. Cigar.
Gibby Haynes is a musician, visual artist, writer, and filmmaker best known as a founding member of the Butthole Surfers, whose outrageous concerts spawned a global cult following and whose albums have sold millions worldwide. He lives in Brooklyn with his family. Me & Mr. Cigar is his first novel.
An LA Weekly Book of the Month
A Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Novel of 2020
Praise for Me and Mr. Cigar
"It takes a book as hilarious, bizarre, profane, and heartfelt as
Me & Mr. Cigar to truly convey the surreality of coming of age as a
teenage boy. This book hit this former teenage boy and new dog
owner right in the heart, by way of the gut."
-Jeff Zentner, Morris Award winning author of The Serpent
King and Goodbye Days
"This book is so wild, so mind-blowing, much fun to read, that I
almost forgot it was fiction! (It is fiction, right? Mega-giant
tech companies aren't really in cahoots with the government, right?
Flying alien creatures aren't really mistaken for lawnmowers . . .
right? Please, tell me this is fiction!) Fast-paced, brilliantly
funny, irreverent, clever . . . AND it's illustrated? Me and Mr.
Cigar is the quintessential teen read, and ipso facto a must-read
for adults, too!"
-Garth Stein, #1 New York Times bestselling author of
The Art of Racing in the Rain
"In the book world we call it 'magical realism.' In the music world
they call it 'psychedelic rock.' Gibby Haynes is very good at both,
which he proves with his brilliant first novel Me and Mr. Cigar.
This novel has it all: glimpses into Haynes's Texas childhood and
teen years, a touch of his distinctive surrealism, and a heartfelt
story which makes it a very good read."
-Blake Nelson, author of Girl and Recovery Road
"I felt like I was diving into a YA written by Thomas Pynchon. It
was a dang blast!"
-Geoff Herbach, bestselling author of Stupid Fast
"Butthole Surfers' Gibby Haynes wrote a YA book as weird as the
band's music."
-The AV Club
"Particularly odd."
-Houston Chronicle
"Between the bindings of Me & Mr. Cigar dwells a strange chain of
events indeed, but profane, tangible fantasy is what indie nation
has come to expect from the wild heart of this Native Texan."
-Austin Chronicle
"Could this be Haynes' true medium?"
-Austin American-Statesman
"This is a story of friendship and the complexities of family. Of
retribution and forgiveness. And it's hard to say much else without
giving too much away . . . The book does feel rebellious and mildly
dangerous-the sort of thing a young teen will delight in reading
when the parents are downstairs watching TV, smiling at the fact
that they'll never know the subversive nature of the prose because,
let's face it, most parents don't read their teen's Young Adult
novels. But the flip-side is that there are real life lessons in
here."
-LA Weekly
"[Haynes] has traded in the bullhorn-blasted vocals for a more
nuanced, but just as outrageous, form of expression . . . Combines
the coming-of-age edge of The Catcher in the Rye with the
surrealism of David Lynch."
-San Antonio Express-News
"YA the Gibby Haynes way."
-The Hype Magazine, Gift Guide
"Are you sitting uncomfortably? Butthole Surfers chaos magnet Gibby
Haynes has written a YA novel . . . It's midway between a
coming-of-age fable and a psychadelic road novel."
-UNCUT Magazine
"By far the weirdest book I have ever read."
-The Nerd Daily
"Me & Mr. Cigar is a mind-blowing, surrealistic novel about a boy
and his dog . . . This wonderful-if completely odd book is unlike
anything you've read before."
-The Big Takeover
"Haynes has concocted a compelling story. The cartoon chaos he used
to create within the confines of a five-minute rock song were
legend. Given 250 pages (divided into 90 speedy chapters), it's
bonkers."
-Red Hook Star-Revue
"Oscar is wreathed by a colorful supporting cast led by a pooch who
is generally the brightest and most dangerous character in the room
. . . As boy-and-his-dog tales go, a long, long way from
Lassie."
-Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
"Haynes's fast-paced debut is full of colorful characters and
concepts."
-Publishers Weekly
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