The Grasshopper King

This debut novel is a profoundly absurd campus satire about immortality, obsession, obscurity, and true love.

Chandler State Universityis the one thing keeping the dusty, Western town of Chandler on the map. Now that its basketball program has fallen apart, CSU’s only claim to fame is its Gravinics Department, dedicated to the study of an obscure European country—its mythology, its extraordinarily difficult language, and especially its bizarre star poet, Henderson.

Having discovered Henderson...