Book Overview
Scott Archer thought his home was an impenetrable sanctuary. His life would seem perfect, a loving wife and a teenaged son, a joylessly efficient Subaru... but just outside his tastefully landscaped yard, chaos reigns. He lives next door to an unending yard sale, that threatens to overwhelm him with used Christmas ornaments and broken tupperware. Frustration with his uncontrolable neighbor, proves too much for a man defined by his painstaking restoration of a craftsman bungalow. While the yard sale next door is the scourge of the neighborhood, it is the salvation of Rick Bundt, a recovering addict, ex-convict and 1980's Heavy Metal drummer with an unexpectedly resurrected hit song. Rick struggles to overcome his own past as a small time criminal and vegetarian. Scott's teenaged son has a growing clandestine invention in his basement. A Tongan giantess and a hollywood grip share a secret past as Morman missionaries. A child filmmaker savant and his 17 year old YouTube sex goddess in a plastic rain poncho create an unexpected internet phenomenon surrounding the yard sale. The spiraling sweep builds to include a flying saucer, a Winnebago, a Yugoslavian assault weapon, a Vampire cop and a Pomeranian with an axe to grind. Losing his grip on reality, Scott is moved by his inner demons to acts of grandiose stupidity to save his garden of eden from the chronic yard sale... Can values and bargains still be found before an epic battle of good versus evil shuts the yard sale forever?
