Oranguman - Louis Sinclair - Bog

20% of profit from sale of each book is donated to ACLU: Oranguman & pink woman is a darkly humorous novella focused on greed and an obsession with appearance, wealth, and power by a wealthy villager from Big Apple who paints himself orange as a token of respect toward village warriors. Oranguman, otherwise known as Om, has inherited a substantial amount of money and property from his father, Big Viagere. The Viageres have a reputation in Big Apple for questionable dealings through their business schemes, one of which is Om's gambling house that has been accused of bilking older people out of their savings. Om has three wives. His most recent wife, Pink Woman, is admired for her pink skin which is attributable to her use of a pink skin cream. She was purchased from a foreign country and villagers believe she has extra "powers" because she can speak several languages. Pink Woman introduced pink skin cream, colored lip grease, and eye-liner to Big Apple, and village women are imitating her. Om decides to run for Chief of Whyland, a position currently held by Chief Aka Abioye from the tribe known as the Tans. Twenty years younger than Oranguman, Aka is the target of constant harassment by Om who has always been jealous of him and envious that Chief Abioye resides in the Big House, a house set aside for Whyland's current chief. Om wants to change Whyland's rules and laws that block his ability to make more money, and after discussing this with some of his wealthy friends, he decides to run for chief which begins an intrigue that is largely the focus of Sinclair's novella. Although the story is similar to lives of several dictators in the world, what takes place is unique to Oranguman, Pink Woman, and the country of Whyland. Justice is eventually served and Whyland is freed from Oranguman and the corrupt Viagere family.