Mr. Crabby You Have Died - Jeremy Kitchen

Mr. Crabby You Have Died by Jeremy Kitchen / ISBN 9781734906073 / 136-page paperback published in 2023 by First to Knock Press (with a great cover illustration by Donald Bruno) *** Mr. Crabby You Have Died is a demented romp that sways between memoir and fiction. The first full-length work by Jeremy Kitchen--a public librarian, former dope fiend, and U.S. Army artillery observer in Desert Storm--this book is an involuntary regurgitation of a life that is as comic as it is horrifying. Kitchen lays bare his world through a series of interlocking exorcisms that deny linear time and good taste. Lost years in the Sarin-laced Persian Gulf drift backwards into Detroit’s acid trash landscape, only to corkscrew forward again into a seemingly endless Chicago night of heroin, handguns, and idiot pranksterism. He paints us a picaresque sprawl with blunt prose—ever haunted by the ungraspable shadow of combat and populated by the likes of an evangelical sadist, a sex-positive trustafarian, and an en