The Hearing Trumpet

A surreal novel by Leonora Carrington. Ninety-two-year-old Marian Leatherby receives an antique hearing trumpet for her birthday and immediately overhears her family planning to send her to a nursing home. But the nursing home turns out to be very out of the ordinary: The houses are shaped like boots and birthday cakes, and the residents have to perform a daily regimen of rubbing their stomachs while patting their heads. Then it gets weirder.

This book provides examples of:
"I wear a white cap on my head and my tail
 * Apocalypse How: The happiest Type 1 you're likely to find.
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Carmella, who writes letters to random people out of the phone book.
 * Dark Comedy
 * Disguised in Drag:
 * Ear Trumpet
 * Humans Are Bastards
 * Little Old Lady Investigates
 * Magical Negro: Christabel
 * Nature Spirit
 * Riddle Me This:

All seasons my caps I wear without fail

Around my fat belly my girdle is hot

I move round and round tho' legs I have not"


 * Super Senses: The titular trumpet seems to grant heightened hearing.
 * These Questions Three