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Tuesday, January 9, 2024
STARRED Book Review: Bad Foundations
IndieBookView posted: " Bad Foundations by Brian Allen Carr Genre: Literary Fiction / Absurdism ISBN: 9781955904865 Print Length: 256 pages Publisher: Clash Books Reviewed by Nick Gardner Cook works in crawl spaces, inspecting them for rot, bu" Independent Book Review
Cook works in crawl spaces, inspecting them for rot, but even when he emerges from the claustrophobic confines, driving across Indiana to the next client, the crawl follows him. The damp basement smell of his coveralls permeates his Prius as his daughter argues that his sales slump is due to a curse. And basement walls crumble around him, a metaphor for his depression and his predicament-prone misadventures in Ohio, Indiana, and beyond. As Cook states, "'When you look at enough crawl spaces, you can only assume that each one trends toward shit show.'" A quote rife with paranoia that feels remarkably familiar to Don DeLillo's, "All plots tend to move deathward."
However, as Cook's family life, work-life, and mental health erode, rather than turning to Jack Gladney's preference for academia and, eventually, revenge, Cook fries his brain on legal weed and finds his answers in strange and surprising working class strangers. While the petty arguments and slightly askew realities Cook faces are reminiscent of White Noise, Carr's characters turn away from academia, from teachers and students. With all of its banter, wit, and pure, unabashed heart, Bad Foundations is a hilarious and fresh drama about the crumbling crawlspaces Cook has built his life on and how he can scramble out of the rubble.
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