Avoid the Day: A New Nonfiction in Two Movements

"Avoid the Daytruly seems to me to push nonfiction memoir as far as it can go without it collapsing into a singularity and I am at a loss for words. You are just going to have to read it." -Helen Macdonald, author ofH is for Hawk

A surreal, high-wire act of narrative nonfiction that redefines the genre,Avoid the Dayis part detective story, part memoir, and part meditation on the meaning of life-all told with a dark pulse of existential horror. What emerges isan unforgettable study of mortali...