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"An intriguing monster."  - Bound and Determined to find a Good Read

Awful, Ohio is a contemporary, avant garde novel.  

It details the account of an overworked man, name Troy Slushy, and his fight to escape the monotonous life that attempts to reduce the meaning of his existence to nothing more than cog in the system.  

Awful, Ohio is a thriving city, with an exploding economy and expanding production, which maximizes profits, but induces a demand for labor, restraining Troy Slushy from enjoying his existence.        

Troy's solution to this self-imposed dilemma, destroying the sun.

Troy Slushy concocts various blueprints to relinquish the over-exposed world from his mind, hoping to leave him and his wife, alone in the peace of perpetual darkness.

After embarking onto this quest, Troy finds himself on the brink of accomplishing his newly discovered purpose, but not with out permanently affecting Awful, Ohio, and all of its production, profits, and population.