Bad Foundations
Bad Foundations is a comedic absurdist novel about a home foundation inspector whose own home life is falling apart.

Cook does not have an ordinary job. He spends his days inspecting people’s crawl spaces, cataloging their filth and photographing the decay. At his other job, as a father, he has to learn how to bond with his teenage daughter, but that’s hard to do when covered in spider webs.

High on legal weed and searching for answers to life’s mysteries, Cook works alongside similar colorful characters trying to make money and save for the future. That is until a bad sales month spirals out into a quantum stay at a surreal Ohio hotel.

New friendships are made, old curses are dealt with, and the local police force is put to the test. Told in a stylized working-class voice, Brian Allen Carr is a true raconteur of the American Midwest.

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Bad Foundations
Bad Foundations is a comedic absurdist novel about a home foundation inspector whose own home life is falling apart.

Cook does not have an ordinary job. He spends his days inspecting people’s crawl spaces, cataloging their filth and photographing the decay. At his other job, as a father, he has to learn how to bond with his teenage daughter, but that’s hard to do when covered in spider webs.

High on legal weed and searching for answers to life’s mysteries, Cook works alongside similar colorful characters trying to make money and save for the future. That is until a bad sales month spirals out into a quantum stay at a surreal Ohio hotel.

New friendships are made, old curses are dealt with, and the local police force is put to the test. Told in a stylized working-class voice, Brian Allen Carr is a true raconteur of the American Midwest.

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Bad Foundations

Bad Foundations

by Brian Allen Carr
Bad Foundations

Bad Foundations

by Brian Allen Carr

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Bad Foundations is a comedic absurdist novel about a home foundation inspector whose own home life is falling apart.

Cook does not have an ordinary job. He spends his days inspecting people’s crawl spaces, cataloging their filth and photographing the decay. At his other job, as a father, he has to learn how to bond with his teenage daughter, but that’s hard to do when covered in spider webs.

High on legal weed and searching for answers to life’s mysteries, Cook works alongside similar colorful characters trying to make money and save for the future. That is until a bad sales month spirals out into a quantum stay at a surreal Ohio hotel.

New friendships are made, old curses are dealt with, and the local police force is put to the test. Told in a stylized working-class voice, Brian Allen Carr is a true raconteur of the American Midwest.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781955904865
Publisher: CLASH Books
Publication date: 01/23/2024
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 4.90(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Brian Allen Carr is the author of OPIOID, INDIANA, is an Aspen Words Finalist and a Wonderland Book Award winner. Originally from Texas, he lives in central Indiana with his family.

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They live in old Victorians with red brick foundations— cellars of stagnant air, perfumed by decades of dust. In side-gabled Tudors with concrete wrapped porches that sink from the home’s fascia— cracks in the stoop. In Craftsmen, in Queen Annes, in mid-century moderns. In stone-façade, single-level ranches— mortar crumbling from joints. 

Split level contemporaries with differential settlement. Asymmetrical Mansards with penicillium on the joists. Modern internationals, “The windows won’t open.” Deeply ornamented Chateauesques, “See, all the doors stick.” They’re renting. They’re buying. They inherited it outright. They’ve lived there forever. They sell in three days. “Depending on what you tell me,” they tell me. “Depending on what you say.” I mainly work in crawl spaces. I inspect bad foundations.     

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