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If you know Adam Mansbach from his snarky kid’s parody, Go The F**k to Sleep, be prepared to move and be moved in another direction. Whether parody or a deep and rewarding dive into personal tragedy, Mansbach has always kept family as a source of inspiration. For the parody, trying to get his young son to sleep. Here, a meditation on his late brother. It is not uncommon to find that the funniest person in the room feels most deeply. Adam Mansbach’s latest is proof.

A brilliant, genre-defying work—both memoir and epic poem—about the struggle for wisdom, grace, and ritual in the face of unspeakable loss

“A bruised and brave love letter from a brother right here to a brother now gone . . . a soaring, unblinking gaze into the meaning of life itself.”—Marlon James, author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf

my father said david has taken his own life

Adam is in the middle of his own busy life, and approaching a career high in the form of a #1 New York Times bestsellin...