It was fresh and unexpected
at every turn.
Judd the popular 17-year-old jock has it all figured out. He’s the star of his school, the top of the heap…but then the world starts changing around him and won’t stop. Without explanation, everyone turns into purple furries…then gas-blasting puffballs…then neurotic lizards. Every time Judd falls asleep, he wakes up in a new and crazier world–a world of godlike super-teens, teenage serial killers, duck people, nudists, monsters, and more. It’s like a twisted video game without rhyme or reason. The rules never stop changing, and the only thing he can depend on is his talking pinky finger with a major attitude. Together, he and Pinkerton (the finger prefers the name “Killdigit!”) fight through the parade of crazy realities, seeking a way to get back to normal. But what if normal just isn’t an option anymore?
This book is by far one of the strangest stories that I have read. – Josef Hernandez, Minneapolis Books Examiner
This book might have been written with a young adult audience in mind, but it’s like no other novel you’ve ever read, young adult or otherwise. Dive into A Pinstriped Finger’s My Only Friend, and you’ll be part of a universe that could only have sprung from the mind of Robert Jeschonek.
A brilliantly insane tour-de-force.
I would recommend the book for those that like their entertainment to be more than a little bizarre and enjoy stories that are really original.
Jeschonek might have written a story about a teen coming to realize something about the world around him and himself, which is not so strange, but the journey the characters and readers embark on from the very first sentence is like nothing else I have read.
Fun and games and food for thought from a wildly creative but very focused author. A nice change of pace if you're feeling ambitious, or just want a change of pace.
A teen with a talkative little finger races through bizarre alternate realities to try to get normal again.
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