In Watermelon Sugar

Plot
Richard Brautigan's In Watermelon Sugar is a novel about a commune organized around a central gathering house named 'iDeath'.

Through the narrator's first person account the reader is told about the people and events of iDEATH. The central story is about a former lover of the narrator named Margaret and inBOIL, a rebellious man who left iDEATH to live near a forbidden area called the Forgotten works. It is hinted that inBOIL left because of a group of creatures known as Tigers by the members of iDEATH. The Tigers aren't ever described to be human or actual tigers though. In the violent climax of the novel, inBOIL returns to the community along with a handful of followers to show the residents was iDEATH really was. Even though this was a violent threat the story doesn't allude to what happens just that the narrator and Margaret to end their relationship due to the event.

Effects
Whenever the book is opened the pages ooze Watermelon Sugar.