My cousin, my gastroenterologist is a postmodernist/absurdist book composed of 17 loosely-related chapters with no general Storyline. It is voiced in first-person by an anonymous narrator often using jargon, broken gramm...My cousin, my gastroenterologist is a postmodernist/absurdist book composed of 17 loosely-related chapters with no general Storyline. It is voiced in first-person by an anonymous narrator often using jargon, broken grammar and punctuation with a poetry-like structure.