The release date for the English version of 'Choke' by
Chuck Palahniuk is Jun 2002. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
A medical school dropout, Victor Mancini is an antihero for these crazy times.
Victor has come up with a clever scheme to pay for his mother's elder care: when eating at fancy restaurants, he pretends to choke on food fragments. He then lets himself be "saved" by other customers who, believing they are to blame for Victor's demise, proceed to provide him financial assistance.
Victor sees his insane mother, works at a colonial theme park, and cruises sexual addiction rehabilitation courses when he's not carrying off this trick.
Chuck Palahniuk, the well-known writer of iconic novels such as Fight Club, is the satirist and visionary we have been waiting for.