Marabou Stork Nightmares

Marabou Stork Nightmares is a novel by Irvine Welsh.

The book's narrative is split into two styles: a conventional first person account of the past and a more surreal, stream of consciousness account of an otherworldly present. Like many of Welsh's novels, its tone veers from black comedy to outright tragedy, and is written for most parts in Welsh's trademark Edinburgh Scots dialect. The plot consists of the memories and hallucinations of the protagonist, Roy Strang, making him an extreme example of an unreliable narrator.