The Sarah Book

"In a just world, there will be people who, after exhausting themselves of the tired “dirty realist” establishment (Raymond Carver, Charles Bukowski, et. al), instinctively and logically reach for Scott McClanahan next. The Sarah Book is a strange, unlovely tragicomedy, charting the fall of a character we’re never really meant to root for in the first place. Each page feels heavy with a greasy, blue-collar nihilism – a classic sort of American melancholy so embedded in our blood that moments of salvation or stupidity within feel, for better or worse, uncannily ours."