
When Mikey Pipe moves to Buenos Aires, his mother isn’t crazy about the idea. When she visits him there, he is determined to show her just how beautiful a city it is. Through exhausting shopping crusades, perilous flying-ant insurrections and continuous rain, he stumbles upon a whole lot more than a beautiful city. Told in nine parts, this hilarious tale digs at life’s stranger realities. And it begs to answer perhaps the most absurd question of all: Just what is the meaning of life, anyway?
- I. Arrival
II. The Alchemy of Shopping
III. Ants
IV. There’s a word for it: BUNK
V. The Museum
VI. Moun’ta-Vid’eeoo
VII. Ants
VIII. The Flying-ant-likeness of Dudley Moore
IX. Departure
Tags: Argentina, Buenos Aires, BUNK, fiction, short story
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1 PIPEinArgentina.com » Blog Archive » To My Grandmother on her 89th Birthday: Why I'm in Argentina // Oct 23, 2007 at 2:07 pm
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