Rovar Pfliegman, a stunted, blood-obsessed butcher selling meat from a broken-down bus in Virginia, believes he’s the last of a cursed Hungarian lineage. As his health fails, surreal visions and grotesque family history blur with his deteriorating reality, leading to a darkly comic meditation on identity, suffering, and the absurdity of existence. **Key Elements** - **Tone**: Darkly humorous, grotesque, and philosophical. - **Themes**: Isolation, ancestry, bodily decay, and the search for meaning. - **Style**: Lyrical yet visceral; blends magical realism with bleak realism. - **Notable**: Weaves Hungarian folklore with American marginalia in a fragmented, nonlinear narrative. **Comparisons**: Like a cross between Kafka and Flannery O’Connor—if they wrote about a hemorrhaging meat-seller.