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From the bestselling author of Thank You for Smoking and Make Russia Great Again comes a comic tour de force the story of one mans lively and funny New York Journal of Books journey through lockdown during the Covid19 pandemic

During the pandemic an aging screenwriter is holed up in a coastal South Carolina town with his beloved second wife Peaches Hes been bingeeating for a year and developed a notable rapport with the local fastfood chain Hippo King He struggles to workon a ludicrous screenplay about a Nazi attempt to kidnap FDR and naturally an article for Etymology Today on English words of Carthaginian origin Hes told Peaches so often about the origins of the word mayonnaise that shes developed an aversion to using the condiment He thinks he has Covid His wife thinks he is losing his mind In short your typical pandemic worries Things were going from bad to worse even before his doctor suggested a battery of brain tests He knows what that means dementia

But even in these scary times there are plenty of things to do to distract him His iPhone is fatshaming him Hes been trying to read Proust and thinks the French novelist missed his true calling as a parfumier And hes discovered nefarious Russian influence on the local coroners face Why is Putin so keen to control who decides who died peacefully and who by foul play in Pimento County Could it be the local military base

Has Anyone Seen My Toes is a laughoutloud Publishers Weekly romp through a time that has been anything but funny