Pill Hill

Pill Hill, Nicholas Breutzman's darkly funny and utterly heartbreaking memoir, plunges the reader into a world of horrifying Tinder dates, flea markets, lizard people, child protective services, black holes, time travel, and stress-induced psychosis. Nic and Henry--father and son--stumble on an old forgottenpark and make a bizarre discovery. Someone marked all the trees with wads ofchewed gum! Who is the gum bandit? Reeling from recent family upheaval, Nic navigates the bravenew world of single parenthood. Meanwhile, his ex-wife descends into addiction, abuse, and homelessness. Amid the turmoil, he becomes increasingly anddesperately obsessed with exposing the gum vandal. Can Nic rise to the occasionand come to terms with his new reality? Or will he let the past drag him backinto despair and denial, threatening the thing he holds most dear: hisrelationship with Henry, his son?