I See You've Called in Dead

I See You've Called in DeadThe Office meets Six Feet Under meets About a Boy in this coming of middle age tale about having a second chance to write your life's story. Bud Stanley is an obituary writer who is afraid to live. Yes, his wife recently left him for a "far more interesting" man. Yes, he goes on a particularly awful blind date with a woman who brings her ex. And yes, he has too many glasses of Scotch one night and proceeds to pen and publish his own obituary. The

Love Medicine and LaRose received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

My goddess of chaos

Jake and Shoshanna grow closer and realize they might be more on the same page than either expects

and upper classes within the city

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Life Is Short challenges us to rethink what gives life meaning and how to make the most of it

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a world of adventure

propelling her into a very different future

"Sharing food is one of the purest human acts

and the bond between brothers

has three times won the National Book Critics Circle Award