Cookie Land
When fate dumps young Timshel Towell’s upbringing into the negligent hands of his violent stepfather and batty grandmother, the enterprising youngster claws his own way through a tumultuous 90s adolescence towards the sordid responsibilities of adulthood.Despairing after yet another tragedy, Timshel finds himself in Cookie Land, a peaceful world of innocence and cheer populated by anthropomorphic gingerbread cookies who while away the hours dancing, singing hymns, and maintaining the zealous perfection of their gingerbread city, reverently, passionately preparing for the return of Our Santa and everlasting Christmas—a second-coming cult of cookies chugging the nog so hard that Timshel is empowered to temper this community into the just and compassionate society he has always wanted to inhabit.When the decision to bake off new cookies goes awry, the toothsome community crumbles under the pressure of maintaining a rigid, dogmatic hierarchy against the wild nature of curious and energetic children. As the new, burnt batch of young cookies strain social mores, the cookies—and Timshel—must choose between security and order, or personal freedom, free love, and tolerance.Wry and speculative, philosophical and curious—the crummy details that form the mythos of a life of disillusionment and placelessness reveal themselves in Cookie Land, where Timshel’s personal Christmas epiphany plays out with snarky skepticism and playful poignancy.
Product Details
- Paperback
- 478 pages
- SKU
- 9798591017156
- Publisher
- Self-published (1/5/21)
- Dimensions
- 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
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