A heartbroken American writer begins a story about an ice-cold sombrero that falls inexplicably from the sky, landing in the middle of a quiet Southwestern town. Reeling from the departure of his beautiful Japanese girlfriend, he’s unable to focus and discards the story in frustration.
But in the wastepaper basket, the story takes on a life of its own—unfolding, through a kind of surreal origami, into a riotous chain of events. As townspeople argue over the mysterious sombrero, tensions escalate, and chaos erupts in the once-sleepy town.
Meanwhile, the writer wanders his apartment, obsessively searching for strands of his lost love’s hair, caught between memory and melancholy.
With signature wit, tenderness, and hallucinatory flair, Richard Brautigan spins a dual narrative that is by turns absurd, moving, and darkly funny. Sombrero Fallout is the work of a visionary at the height of his creative powers—melding heartbreak and invention into a timeless cult classic.
Physical Info: 5.08 x 0.51 x 7.80 inches | 192 Pages | Paperback