Elder Physics: The Wrong of Time: Stories from an Elder Home

Elder Physics: The Wrong of Time is an illustrated novel built almost entirely from monologue. Gerald and his son trade witty, glancing talk about life inside an elder home, and as Gerald's body and mind decline he moves from Independent Living to Assisted Living and, finally, to Death.

Father and son keep pulling in other texts and refunctioning them, bending borrowed language to fit a gerontic narrative into a sampler culture. James R. Hugunin calls the mode ludicakadroman: a playful autotheory in which the memory of lived experience is one material among theory, artworks, and other literary texts.