The Butterfly Kid

by Chester Anderson

First published 2019

It's 1967 in New York City's Greenwich Village. Chester, a free-spirited college dropout, spends his days getting high and exploring the counterculture scene. But when a strange new drug starts turning people into colorful, fluttering creatures, Chester must snap out of his haze and team up with a motley crew of misfits to uncover the source of the "Butterfly Plague" before it spreads across the city. With the clock ticking, Chester finds himself in a mind-bending adventure that mixes absurdist humor, alien invasion, and the universal human need to find purpose and connection.

Genres: science-fiction, american-fiction, 20th-century, adventure

Vibes: absurdist, mind-bending, thought-provoking

Tropes: found-family, misfits

Setting: Greenwich Village, New York City

Period: 1967

208 pages · Kindle Edition · Dover Publications

Content warnings: drug-use

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