Used. Paperback. Jonathan Rogers spins a cracking good picaresque about a nameless boy playing a bogus beast in the traveling shows of a whimsical frontier. As our sideshow star holes up with a fast-talking huckster, this fantasy novel cleverly pokes fun at the business of humbug while wrestling with weightier questions of identity and belonging. It is a wonderfully strange yarn brimming with swamp-bred bluster and philosophical grit, making it a fantastic find for readers who like their whimsy with a touch of bite.