The new and improved Romie Futch
By: Julia Elliott
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: Tin House Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9781941040157
Subjects: Fiction; Human experimentation in medicine; Taxidermists
Description: Down on his luck and still pining for his ex-wife, South Carolina taxidermist Romie Futch spends his evenings drunkenly surfing the Internet before passing out on his couch. In a last-ditch attempt to pay his mortgage, he replies to an ad and becomes a research subject in an experiment conducted by the Center for Cybernetic Neuroscience in Atlanta, Georgia.