Lost in the Funhouse Study Guide

Lost in the Funhouse is but one of a collection of works that, in the author's own words, are "experimental". It tells, through disjointed, baffling prose, the story of Ambrose, a boy in his early teens thirteen, in fact, and on the cusp on puberty and his family who go to Ocean City for a holiday. Three times a year the family makes this trip to the shore: on Memorial, Labor and Independence Day. This particular trip occurs on the latter, at some point during the Second World War. (read more)