Drive-Thru

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Paperback (Signed)
251 pages

BAD BUSINESS THIS IS.

Looking out the windshield, I took note of the drive-thru and the restaurant it was attached to, the design of which looked more like a Third World gulag than a family restaurant. Its sharp edges and flat, featureless gray exterior were reminiscent of a death camp, while its smoking rooftop suggested a waste-to-energy facility's smokestack. Beside the entrance door, a small island was filled in with red cedar chips and a single stunted tree was planted there, flaccid in its wilting atrophy.

“We're not moving,” Chantal said with her eyes closed.

A hack writer, a reluctant heroin dealer, a snotty rich kid, a wanna-be gangsta, and two very dissatisfied women. What do they all have in common? More than they would like to admit.

After a trip to a drive-thru fails to produce their desired fast-food items, five relative strangers find themselves trapped inside an empty quick-serve restaurant with a racist robot and a thoroughly despicable narrator.

As paranoia sets in and tensions escalate, the group employs stereotypes and superstitions in their effort to make sense of their mysterious circumstance. What follows is a cruel satire challenging everything we think we know about addiction, freedom, casual dining, consumerism, and cannibalism.

Praise for Bob Freville
“Howlingly funny...deeply unsettling...It seems no stone goes unturned in Freville’s examination of that subset of American...that feels oppressed on all sides at all times.” - McEric, Ain’t It Cool News

“America’s next great literary voice.” - Josh Darling, author of 9 Horror Stories: The Sequel

“Hilarious and depressing, irreverent and poignant.” - Nikolas P. Robinson, author of May Cause Unexplained Ocular Bleeding

“...one of the funniest...of the year... manages to make a number of important points...” - Compulsive Reader

“Freville gives us the kind of corybantic ripostes to which Martin McDonagh has long aspired...succeeds at discussing difficult subject matter in a new and accessible way.” - Inkwell