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I See You've Called in Dead - Paperback

by John Kenney
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Availability:In StockContributor:John KenneyTheme:Topical/FriendshipPublish date:6/2/2026Pages:320
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Zibby PublishingISBN-13:9798989923021UPC:9798989923021Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Humorous, Friendship, SatireBook Topic:Dark HumorSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.363Product ID:SC03VRA8T9

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER - One of NPR's Book We Love 2025 - A Gotham Book Prize Finalist - An Indie Next & LibraryReads Pick - AudioFiles Earphones Award Winner - Library Journal Audio "Editor's Picks of the Year" - 2026 Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List Pick

"Razor-sharp, darkly comedic, and emotionally piercing. With the satirical bite of Richard Russo's Straight Man, the introspection of Fredrik Backman's A Man Called Ove, and the reinvention of Andrew Sean Greer's Less, Kenney's vivid prose transforms the mundane into unexpected hilarity."
--Booklist (starred review)

Obituary writer Bud Stanley isn't really living his best life. He's fallen into a funk after a divorce. (She left him for another man, who, in fairness, was far more interesting.) He's not doing his job well. He's given up on dating. And he's about to be fired for accidentally publishing his own obituary one mildly drunken night (though technically the company can't legally fire a dead person).

As Bud awaits his fate at work, he does the only logical thing: He goes to the wakes and funerals of total strangers to learn how to live again.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Zibby PublishingISBN-13:9798989923021UPC:9798989923021Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Humorous, Friendship, SatireBook Topic:Dark HumorSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.363Product ID:SC03VRA8T9
John Kenney is the New York Times bestselling author of Love Poems for Married People and the novels Talk to Me and Truth in Advertising, which won the Thurber Prize for American Humor. He is a longtime contributor to The New Yorker and lives in Larchmont, New York.
Publisher: Zibby Publishing

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