A book within this novel describes Jesus as a nobody who is adopted by God right before he’s crucified. This novel’s protagonist is repeatedly accused of having echolalia by General Rumfoord while lying in a hospital bed, where he’s visited by his daughter Barbara. This novel’s protagonist cries when listening to the Febs, a barbershop quartet, before a plane carrying him and other optometrists crashes in Vermont. The protagonist of this novel befriends Eliot Rosewater, who introduces him to the science fiction writer Kilgore Trout. In this novel, Montana Wildhack gives birth in a human zoo operated by green aliens resembling toilet plungers called Tralfamadorians. For 10 points, name this novel in which Billy Pilgrim becomes “unstuck in time,” written by Kurt Vonnegut. ■END■
ANSWER: Slaughterhouse-Five [or Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death]
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