Uncanny Family Values is a hybrid work of prose and poetry that follows four brothers whose lives unfold in parallel, merging and diverging as they attempt to cope with hedonism, memory, and the instability of identity. It is not so much about what they did, but how they went about it.
The manuscript presents an evolution of deterioration across multiple forms—fragmented lyric, narrative prose, and encoded language—where each voice operates as a distinct mode of perception while contributing to a larger collective structure. Through these shifting perspectives, the work examines how identity is constructed, distorted, and ultimately destabilized within the framework of the American family.
Drawing from traditions of collage and nonconformance, the text employs humor, the uncanny, and formal disruption as a response to contemporary cultural conditions. Meaning is not fixed but accumulates through fragmentation, repetition, and misalignment. What remains is not resolution, but sensation.
