The Roaches Have No King by Daniel Evan Weiss

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"In the roaches have no king," by Daniel Evan Weiss, received a New York Times review in 1994 when it came out. The author presents life as a battle between sexes between species on the chessboard and outside the household. "The novel is also dark and erotic and addiction to being clever and charming?" says CNN's John Sutter.

Our Patron's Choice Poll for June had a theme: Junebugs! And this novel by Weiss about a roach colony attempting to assert control over the apartment in which they live is uhh...well it won the poll. So Craig read it. And now he's going to talk about it.

Caveat lictor: this book is a strange one (also it's got more explicit sexual content than you might expect!)

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