# Toad - Hardcover

by **Katherine Dunn** (Author), **Molly Crabapple** (Foreword by)

**A previously unpublished novel of the reflections of a deeply scarred and reclusive woman, from the cult icon Katherine Dunn, the author of _Geek Love_.**

Sally Gunnar has withdrawn from the world. She spends her days alone at home, reading drugstore mysteries, polishing the doorknobs, waxing the floors. Her only companions are a vase of goldfish, a garden toad, and the door-to-door salesman who sells her cleaning supplies once a month. She broods over her deepest regrets: her blighted romances with self-important men, her lifelong struggle to feel at home in her own body, and her wayward early twenties, when she was a fish out of water among a group of eccentric, privileged young people at a liberal arts college. There was Sam, an unabashed collector of other people's stories; Carlotta, a troubled free spirit; and Rennel, a self-obsessed philosophy student. Self-deprecating and sardonic, Sally recounts their misadventures, up to the tragedy that tore them apart.

Colorful, crass, and profound, _Toad_ is Katherine Dunn's ode to her time as a student at Reed College in the late 1960s. It is filled with the same mordant observations about the darkest aspects of human nature that made _Geek Love_ a cult classic and Dunn a misfit hero. Daring and bizarre, _Toad_ demonstrates her genius for black humor and her ecstatic celebration of the grotesque. Fifty-some years after it was written, _Toad_ is a timely story about the ravages of womanhood and a powerful addition to the canon of feminist fiction.

### Author Biography

**Katherine Dunn** is the author of _Geek Love_, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Bram Stoker Award, as well as the novels _Attic_ and _Truck_. She was an award-winning boxing journalist whose work appeared in _Esquire_, _KO Magazine_, _The New York Times Magazine_, _Playboy_, _The Ring_, _Sports Illustrated_, and _Vogue_. Her writing on boxing is collected in _One Ring Circus_. In 2004, Dunn and the photographer Jim Lommasson won the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize for their work on the book _Shadow Boxers_. Dunn died in 2016.

**Number of Pages:** 352

**Dimensions:** 1.15 x 8.47 x 5.71 IN

**Publication Date:** November 01, 2022

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