HOOSIER MISFITS AND PERVERTS is a collection of nineteen short stories connected by a cast of characters comprised of immigrants and other outsiders reaching for the American Dream in America's Heartland, Indiana, during the last half of the 20th Century. You'll meet Beamer when he's a child in Cold War Bloomington, striving to understand his father's alcoholism and obsession with Doomsday. You'll meet Joyce Crowley, a ten year old who frequently beats her father at chess and chases him down in a movie theater when her mother is in the hospital giving birth to her baby brother. You'll meet Samuel Duncan, an orphan raised by Jewish parents in Martinsville. When the Klan harasses Samuel's father, Samuel gives them a taste of their own medicine.
You'll walk through the decades toward the 21st century, meeting their offspring along the way, watching their struggle to overcome poverty and the demons that accompany it. These are the stories of all working class Americans, constantly feeling left on the outside, constantly giving the System all the help it needs to destroy themselves. Who will emerge in the 21st century unscathed?
Read what critics have to say about Alec Cizak:
"If only Roe v Wade had been law when Cizak was born, the world would be a better place"
- Sally Phuklis, editor,
Sourpuss Weekly "Cizak is one of these pesky edgelords who refuses to be an obedient consumer" - Nicholas Stringbean,
The Monthly Eunuch "It's obvious Cizak is a warlock who should be thrown into a lake to see if he floats" - Matthew Roberts, leader of the Church of the Golden Buffet
"My wife won't stop saying his name in her sleep" - Lincoln Knub,
Cuckold Quarterly "Cizak is the kind of guy who gets upset if you insult him. I hate people like that" - T.D. Foxx, author of
No Surprises Here! "The sooner someone bans Cizak's books, the safer I'll feel walking alone at night" - Christine Russo, author of
Dog Mommy Blues "I heard Cizak feeds dead unicorns to homeless gnomes" - Gino Kirsch, author of
Safe Music for Puritans
