Pygmy

Pygmy is one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the United States, disguised as exchange students, to live with typical American families and blend in, all the while planning an unspecified act of massive terrorism. Palahniuk depicts Midwestern life through the eyes of this thoroughly indoctrinated little killer, who hates Americans with a passion, in this cunning double-edged satire of an American xenophobia that might, in fact, be completely justified. Pygmy & his fellow operatives are cooking up something big, and truly, truly awful, that will bring this big dumb country & its fat dumb inhabitants to their knees. "The Manchurian Candidate Meets South Park." 240p.