The Ghost in the Cereal Box

arts, books · EN

The Ghost in the Cereal Box. Trip Hollister swallows a lemon drop when he's ten. He spends the next thirty years trying to digest it. The book starts at the end and works backward through a sewer full of filing cabinets, a microwave that hums even when unplugged, a substance called the Tar, and a man in a suit who keeps appearing in rooms that shouldn't exist. It's a comedy about time, memory, and the joke you spend your whole life learning to tell. 22 chapters. One lemon drop. The punchline lands on page one.