Spencer Casey is a 20-year-old high school dropout who works in a failing puzzle factory in Philadelphia, chopping up Masterpieces of Western Art into jigsaw puzzles. He is tired of being an effect instead of a cause. On the night before the factory is to close, inspired by the image of a butterfly flapping its wings in China, he scrambles the pieces of a painting called ‘Chaos Scape 19’ and sends his own ripples of chaos into the world, with reverberations that are both subversive and hilarious.
A BUTTERFLY IN PHILADELPHIA is a satirical comic novel and at the same time a coming of age story for the two narrators, Spencer Casey and Lindsay Pangborn, who, like most young people, manage to navigate successfully through the chaos they inflict on the world.
"A BUTTERFLY IN PHILADELPHIA is one of the strange comic masterpieces that you're quite lucky to run across once in a very great while. It's most highly recommended." - Jack Magnus, Readers' Favorite Book Reviews.
Genre: Literary Fiction
A BUTTERFLY IN PHILADELPHIA is a satirical comic novel and at the same time a coming of age story for the two narrators, Spencer Casey and Lindsay Pangborn, who, like most young people, manage to navigate successfully through the chaos they inflict on the world.
"A BUTTERFLY IN PHILADELPHIA is one of the strange comic masterpieces that you're quite lucky to run across once in a very great while. It's most highly recommended." - Jack Magnus, Readers' Favorite Book Reviews.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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