Overview
For Clay Blackall, a lifelong resident of Providence, Rhode Island, the place has become an obsession. Here live the only people who can explain what happened to his brother, Eli, whose suicide haunts this heartbreaking, hilarious novelāināfragments.
A failed actor impersonates a former movie star; an exācon looks after a summer home perched atop a rock in the bay; a brokenāhearted salutatorian airs thirteen yearsā worth of dirty laundry at his schoolās commencement; an adjunct struggles to make room for her homeless and selfāabsorbed mother while revisiting a scandalous high school love affair; a recent widower, with the help of a clever teen, schemes to rid his condoās pond of Canada geese. Clay compiles their stories, invasively providing context in the form of notes that lead always, somehow, back to Eli. Behind Clayās possibly insane, definitely doomed, and increasingly suspect task burns his desire to understand his brotherās death, and the city that has defined and ruined them both.
Full of brainy detours and irreverent asides, Exes is a powerful investigation of grief, love, and our deeply held yet everāchanging notions of home.
This book title, Exes (A Novel), ISBN: 9781936787401, by Max Winter, published by Catapult (April 11, 2017) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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