Buying The Ostrich Farm

By Jack Moody

From Anxiety Press

For the patients of the Oregon State Hospital (formerly the Oregon State Hospital for the Insane), Asylum means sanctuary.

Fuckup, a veteran of government institutions since childhood, and his fellow Acutes Ashes and Squints, are all too happy to stay. Because despite the medieval punishments, untested medications, and Miss Nurse's authoritarian rule over her ward, an insulated life inside padded rooms is surely better than the society that awaits their rehabilitation. But when a new patient dubbed No Brains arrives to the Acute ward, bringing with him grave news of the outside world and a mindset which threatens to dismantle the patients' blissful ignorance, cracks in their Asylum's white walls begin to show, revealing the carefully concealed evidence of a divided country aflame.

A counterculture novel for the modern age, Jack Moody's Buying the Ostrich Farm is the sharp, satirical story of cognitive dissonance, state-sanctioned lobotomies, and the fundamental necessity of revolution.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GTVBGZ23
• ISBN13: 9798252664149
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"