Doctor Nobody and the Lower Animals

Hopkins Carver, a detective in a small town in Illinois, is caught between The Society, a white supremacist group headed by a disgraced pastor, and ARAFO, a violent anti-fascist resistance movement. The situation becomes critical when a black girl is found dead in an abandoned farmhouse. Is she just another victim in a local suicide epidemic, or is The Society involved? The town is on edge, and Carver may be losing his mind to Grief Machine, a new drug that has hit the town. Reality and memory blend with history and hallucination, and the lines between man and animal, between one's own mind and the rest of the world, are blurred as the war reaches a fever pitch.

About the Author

Schuy R. Weishaar is the author of the novels, Doctor Nobody and the Lower Animals (2020) and Dark of the Center Line, (2016), as well as a book on philosophy and film, Masters of the Grotesque: The Cinema of Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, the Coen Brothers, and David Lynch (2012). He is the lyricist and vocalist for the band Manzanita Bones. He teaches writing and literature.

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