Emma whose, ahem, skills have earned her eight husbands.

Obsessed with string, Seiler seeks to measure the depth of a nearby lake, using the petulant Wakefield daughter as a weight.Īt the center is the family’s matriarch Ms. Noranbole flees to Big City with her paramour Bernard, where she starts a life of success as CEO of the world’s largest company, while Urine becomes the unwitting victim of Seiler, the family’s mad handyman. Urine Wakeling and her sister Noranbole live opposite lives: while the boys of the town flock around Urine (despite her horrible disposition), the noble Noranbole is relegated to a life of unnoticed servitude. We follow the saga of the Wakeling Family of Tiny Village. Stitch sets this gem in a world where past and present mingle, a world of his own creation, where the invention of the wheel and the Internet are concurrent. It is everything I love about surrealism and bizarro put together in one masterpiece. This is the type of book I adore: intelligent, whimsically hilarious, and unapologetically bizarre. But after reading Guillermo Stitch’s Lake of Urine, that’s all changed. If you ask me my favorite modern bizarre authors, I will immediately spout off the names Danger Slater, Brian Allen Carr, and Autumn Christian.

It is a true story I am lying if it isn’t, and I don’t lie.” – Opening line

“If anybody tells you this story isn’t true, they are lying.

Lake of Urine by Guillermo Stitch