"'Revenge of the Scapegoat' is an original satirical novel by contemporary American author Caren Beilin. A summary description: One day Iris, an adjunct at a city arts college, receives a terrible package: recently unearthed letters that her father had sent in her teens, in which he blames her for their family's crises. Driven by the raw fact of receiving these devastating letters not once but twice in a lifetime, Iris escapes to the countryside-or some absurdist version of it. Nazi cows, Picassos used as tampons, and a pair of arthritic feet that speak in the voices of Flaubert's Bouvard and Pecuchet are standard fare in this beguiling novel, a work of high comedy that is also a biting investigation of familial trauma, chronic illness, academic labor, and art"-- Provided by publisher.
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