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The Brickeaters(2018)
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The Brickeaters is a new departure for The Residents: a detective novel. Now there has certainly been crime in their work (most notable with 2005's River of Crime), and there was even a novel (Bad Day on the Midway), and one could even look toward Freak Show for an example of branching out to book-bound forms.

But what makes The Brickeaters different from those other literary asides is that it is not attached to an existing Residents project. The Brickeaters begins life as a novel - whether or not it spins off into another project is yet to be seen.

The story follows Franklin Blodgett, a writer from Los Angeles whose wife recently left him. He travels to Missouri to investigate a strange news item: an elderly man was found dead near a highway, with a loaded gun and an oxygen tank. Just weird enough to attract Frank's attention, and certainly far enough away to keep his mind off of his personal troubles. As he uncovers more of the story, it only gets more and more bizarre...

The Brickeaters is published by Process Media and was released on July 10, 2018.