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The Brothers Squimbop are everywhere—and nowhere.
Leaping across time, slipping between realities, and reshaping history in their wake, the enigmatic duo weaves a saga as bizarre as it is relentless. Sometimes slapstick comedians, sometimes ruthless tricksters, sometimes reluctant prophets, the Brothers shift identities, betray and resurrect each other, and leave a trail of chaos in their pursuit of an impossible mission: to bring about the Golden Age—over and over again.
Set in a world that thrives on spectacle, where mountain retreats and flickering cinemas hold the echoes of history, The Squimbop Condition is a wild, mind-bending journey through myth, madness, and the nature of storytelling itself.
PUBLICATION DATE: September 11, 2025
ISBN: 9781948687706
PRICE: $30
PAGE: 342 / Hardcover
Size: 5.5x8.5
Distributor: Asterism
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Lettering and Design: jr duennweller
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Additional design elements: Mike Corrao
Advanced Praise for ‘The Squimbop Condition’
David Leo Rice writes fiction with a seething ferocity, brilliance, and arcane imagination; the Squimbop Condition is a surreal and profound leap into the timeless art of storytelling. David Leo Rice is a writer I greatly admire. – Brandon Hobson, finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, and author of The Devil is a Southpaw
Reading David Leo Rice’s The Squimbop Condition is like stumbling into the world of an unmade David Lynch movie, getting lost in the dream of it. Tracking the escapades of the notorious Brothers Squimbop, it plays like a roadshow presentation full of mysterious visions from a realm both alien and familiar. Like Richard Brautigan and Flann O’Brien and Samuel Beckett, Rice is a marauding magician, and he’s both deadly serious and deadly funny. The Squimbop Condition is a majestic and strange force of a book, a work of wild pleasures for our unsettled, damaged times. – William Boyle, author of Saint of the Narrows Street
I’ve always been a DLR super fan, and The Squimbop Condition is a new pinnacle. It has a joyful rhythm, a cadence that pervades the psyche until our concepts of self, other, relation, and identity tumble out topsy-turvy. I cherish the hours I spent with this book. – Charlene Elsby, author of The Devil Thinks I’m Pretty and Violent Faculties
Much like his titular characters, David Leo Rice is an agent of chaos, inciting literary anarchy with an aptitude rarely seen in today’s so-called experimental writing scene. The Squimbop Condition unleashes a barrage of questions so incisive it renders any and all answers moot; functioning simultaneously as a medical text, a historical document, and even a holy book. It is a diagnosis of our collective malaise. A prescient lesson plan outlining a new golden age of American fiction. – Joshua Chaplinsky, author of Letters to the Purple Satin Killer
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