The Sugar Frosted Nutsack

The Sugar Frosted Nutsack (2012) by Mark Leyner. The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is an outrageous novel with an outrageous title. It's not for everyone. It begins with the arrival of the Gods, The drunken Gods arrive by bus at a place they do not recognize. ("It's almost as if they'd been on some sort of 'Spring Break,' as if they'd 'gone wild.' ") The Gods have strange names, and go by so many aliases that it would be hard to keep track of them if Leyner did not consistently repeat their aliases and catalog them all over and over. Leyner's imagination is so boundless, his vocabulary to immense, his knowledge of pop culture so encyclopedic, that he imbues this novel with a weird sense of wonder that seems totally original. Needless to say, the book is also very funny, if you "get" it. Like I said, it's not for everyone. But for those who can stick with it and who see the humor in Leyner's weird stylings, I give it a Grade: A