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BOOGA BLURBS
PRAISE FOR
Hayes Brown's Booga
"Booga is either an anachronism, or, more likely, a book waiting for its audience to find it. Orwell and Salinger meet up with Harper Lee in the sensibility of this satirical/political allegory/coming of age novel. Hayes Brown's near fantasy manages to be witty, tender, smart, inventive as well as capable of carrying the idealism and hope that used to be the hallmarks of young writers' work. Booga is a long way from the irony and cynicism that seem to rise to the top of the slush pile, but if we are in for another round of 60s' style youthful activism--and I hope we are--this is the good book you'll find in all the backpacks."
--Linda McCarriston
National Book Award finalist
"Booga is a journey about learning the stuff of life. It is a funny, poignant story about redemption and resurrection of the human spirit."
--Terry Wimmer
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
"Booga is a humorous and bizarre novel about a man who decides to completely change his life, up to the point of ending it. He quits his job, breaks off his wedding engagement, drives across the country, and strives to become a world-class boomerang thrower, before ultimately ceasing his own existence. His mishmash journey picks up an assortment of unlikely accomplices of varying degrees of reality, and the truth he searches for may be beyond his wildest dreams. Walking the line between sane and visionary or clinically obsessed, Booga is a story that, like its namesake, can't be tossed aside; it just keeps coming back for more."
--Midwest Book Review