With notes of Kurt Vonnegut and Alice in Wonderland, Hillbilly Epicurean sizzles with wit and subversive humor.

Denver Crawley has just started working for the Chimerical Research Division, a basement-level government agency, in Knoxville, Tennessee. It was either that or get cut off from his wealthy father’s money train. His days are now mired in monotony as he sits in a tiny concrete block office, thumbing through various forms of media attempting to find references to any strange and unexplainable anomalous occurrences from around the world that could signify bits of an alternate realm, universe, or reality.

When Denver finds a project that his predecessor had been working on—the same predecessor who had died on duty—his interest is piqued. It seems that in 1953 a group of archeologists dug up a strange artifact, a keystone with unexplainable writing on it. Now, years later, a construction crew in Kansas City has found another artifact connected to the first. What does it mean? It’s time for a road trip for Denver.

 With the help of an eccentric consultant, he begins to unravel the complexities of the many realities that parallel our own and discovers the threat residing just beyond their borders. Now the fate of our world rests on the shoulders of a defunct government employee, a political scientist, and his demon.