The Reason You're Alive: A Novel

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook comes a “dark, funny, and surprisingly tender" (Publishers Weekly) novel featuring Matthew Quick's most fascinating character yet, a Vietnam vet embarking on a quixotic crusade to track down his nemesis from the war.

After sixty-eight-year-old David Granger crashes his BMW, medical tests reveal a brain tumor that he readily attributes to his wartime Agent Orange exposure. He wakes up from surgery repeating a name no on...