/lit/ - Literature

>1906, zealous catholic woman witnesses her 5 years old son suffering of smallpox
>promises God that if he heals her boy, she will name her next child after an infamous or impious Biblical character (Jezebel if a girl, Cain if a boy)
>her boy is healed
>names next child, born male, Cain
>1931, USA
>farm going through the difficulties of the Great Depression. A couple and their three kids live there. One older brother who is always in a bad mood, a middle brother who is always depressed, and an annoying effeminate younger brother who behaves like a "littlest sister"
>Everyone acts self-defeated
>Older brother gets sick of it and kills everyone brutally
>gouges their eyes out and rips their faces off with machetes, then setting them on fire
>leaves the farm and moves away to Chicago
>In Chicago, 1931
>Cain is a 25 years old foreigner drug smuggler working for a Polish crime boss who comes to america with him
>they witness from an interpersonal distance the hunger, the impotence and the poverty affecting the USA
>start selling cocaine and amphetamines disguised as candy (an ingenuous method explained in the book) to the people to provide them with something that makes them feel good momentarily and seizes their hunger for a while
>lots of people turned into junkies overnight
>the most desperate unemployed men start coming to work among the drug dealers hired by the Polish crime boss
>Cain starts making a lot of money as a minor Kingpin
>Enter the older brother from before, who arrives in Chicago and is taken under the guidance of a small secret association of cannibals, who are turning to eating people to survive the famine
>The group teaches him the proper ways of cooking and consuming human meat, and soon enough the cannibal clan is its own bizarre underground organization
>The cannibals come in contact with the Polish dealers and start working for them
>the Older Brother suffers what he seems is part of his "Insanity", given he is a sadistic explosive psychopath, believe his brains are falling apart, when he is actually experiencing the symptoms of withdrawal from consuming the flesh of amphetamine addicts
>1939, Mexico
>Cain observes from a distance the news that Hitler has invaded Poland and decides he must come back to see what is happening with his family
>works smuggling heroin around in Mexico for a while before travelling to Poland
>Cain wanders through different countries observing the Economic crises, the eve of WWII and other harsh historical events that are about to unravel in all of them, while safely working profitable criminal schemes
>the Older Brother's endless sadism and his drug addiction lead towards insanity

I'm still working on it and trying to fit it in a bigger outline, but as of now this is what I have