Saving Maria by Truant Memphis

A fourth-wall-breaking spree of vigilante action and international rabble-rousing, Saving Maria by Truant Memphis is a surreal tale of unsung heroes fighting fearlessly for the masses. When a priceless art collection is stolen in a daring daytime heist, the case is taken on by the Electric Medicine Men, a ragtag cabal of clandestine antiheroes, including Littlethumb Brooks, the monk-like artist in mourning who created the pilfered paintings. Laced with wry wit and off-kilter, unpredictable prose reminiscent of Tom Robbins, this farcical novel is both strange and sharp, touching on everything from grief, geopolitics, and societal oppression to kung-fu monkeys, Hitler’s grandson, and the transformative power of art, for a whimsical novel with incisive depth.