oddities.

NEW YORK TIMES NONSELLER
Dolph Lundgren Literary Award for Humor (5th Place)
Voted Best Toilet Read by the UA Local 157 Pipefitter Union
Part memoir, part travelogue, and part LSD-tinged gonzo essay collection, Rodger Cambria’s oddities explores the strange and colorful lives of those who exist on society’s outer fringe. Embedding himself with circus carnies and sword swallowers, geriatric rock groupies and breakdancing furries, rock and roll roadies and time traveling monks, Cambria deftly weaves their hilarious and heartbreaking stories with his own tales of adolescent angst, pulling back the curtain to reveal our most basic human desire: a longing for community and acceptance in an increasingly isolating world. Because we’ve all been lonely weirdos at some point in our lives. And no one wants to eat ham alone.

Using his keen eye and self-deprecating wit, Cambria gives voice to the weird kids, the unpopular, the feared and the despised. Most of all, oddities is damn funny. If you don’t laugh and pee yourself a little while reading it, the author will come to your house and make you biscuits with jam.*

*Only if you invite him. He won’t just appear at your bedside in the middle of the night with a fistful of biscuit dough because that would be terrifying.