Fat White Vampire Blues

Imagine a meal that serves up portions of two Big Easy favorites, Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces. After more than a century of feasting on the rich blood of unsuspecting French Quarter revelers, New Orleans cabdriver and vampire Jules Duchon finds himself in a bit of a slump. As the dietary habits of his human prey go from bad to worse, Jules now tips the scales at over 450 pounds, rendering seamless transformation into a functionally flying bat next to impossible. To make matters worse, a vicious urban turf war unfolds, when rival vampire Malice X threatens Jules with permanent death. Fox's debut novel holds appeal as both a parody of the vampire genre and an homage to the unique charms of New Orleans.