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The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison

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Jun 24, 12

Recommended to Laura by: publisher ARC
Read from June 11 to 24, 2012

Absurd, bawdy, tender, Evison walks a tightrope between the profane, the ridiculous and the gut-wrenchingly- sad. Unable to deal with the loss of his young son and daughter and the dissolution of his marriage, Benjamin's life and his interest in it has hit an all time low. In a desperate attempt to set his life in motion again, he takes a job as a caregiver to a teenage by suffering from MD. Struggling to keep the emotional detachment required for the job, Benjamin and wheelchair-bound Trevor set out on the road trip of a lifetime. Think Fred Exley (A Fan' Notes) setting out cross-country in a handicap van with all of his demons hot on his tail. Evison's story gets richer and funnier as it moves on down the road.

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Reading Progress

06/19/2012 page 96
33.0%
06/24/2012 page 136
47.0% "Alternately humorous, sad, brilliant and raunchy. I can compare Evison's writing to no one other than morn Fred Exley."
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