The Hood Cooper Story: An Urban Tale

This thing is different than anything else. It’s so expertly vacuolated! It enables me, somehow, to create—to hang my own literary entrails on the skeleton of elemental form. By camouflaging its native interior light, it somehow unveils my own.
“Weird.”
—Shauna Reaves (high school English teacher)
“We sit around at night with Hood Cooper and a stop-watch, and see who can read it the longest without bustin’ up.”
—Mike Brewster (mechanic)
“My friends say I’m lying when I tell them I get it. Plus, my parents leave me alone now.”
—Trevor Langley (seventh-grader)
“Before reading Hood Cooper; An Urban Tale, I was diagnosed as being clinically neurotic. Reading Hood Cooper did not relieve my neurosis. It did, however, seem to “coat” it in a kind of paranoiac psychosis.”
—Skeeter McCoy (meter reader)
“I like this book. It reminds me of …. my sofa.”
—Willa-Jean (housewife)