Amp'd from Ken Pisani, A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER and finalist for the 2017 Thurber Prize for American Humor

"Complete with painfully wry observations and delightfully caustic wit, this novel is a gritty exploration of what it truly is wish to think incomplete on this planet. All 5 palms up for this bitterly fulfilling tale." --Kirkus Reviews(starred)
Aaron isn't really a guy on a hero's trip. within the query of struggle or flight, he will select flight whenever. So whilst a vehicle twist of fate leaves him by surprise asymmetrical, his left arm amputated, counting on the brilliant aspect is just not anything he is outfitted to do.
Forced to come to his boyhood domestic to get better, Aaron is faced with an getting older father (a former Olympic biathlete became hoarder), a mom who is selected to dwell in a yurt with a fireman twelve years her junior, and a well-meaning sister whose unbearable husband proves love is not only blind, but additionally painfully stupid.
As Aaron attempts to make the realm round him disappear in a haze of Vicodin and scientific marijuana, the one actual pleasure in his existence comes from day-by-day ninety-second radio spots of enjoyable technology proof: the rate of falling raindrops, batteries produced from starfish, and sexual responses caused by means of ringtones - all informed within the lush, disembodied voice of commentator Sunny Lee, with whom he falls helplessly, ridiculously, in love. Aaron's obsession with Sunny in simple terms quickens his downward spiral, like pouring accelerant on a fireplace. careworn to do whatever - whatever - to maneuver his lifestyles ahead, he's taking the single task he can get. As a "fish counter" on the close by dam, he concludes that an act of violent sacrifice to disencumber the river should be his top, ultimate option.