By Max Winter
[A] heartbreaking novel concerning the devastations of severed attachments.” —NPR
For Clay Blackall, a lifelong resident of windfall, Rhode Island, where has develop into an obsession. right here dwell the single those who can clarify what occurred to his brother, Eli, whose suicide haunts this heartbreaking, hilarious novel-in-fragments.
A failed actor impersonates a former celebrity; an ex-con takes care of a summer time domestic perched atop a rock within the bay; a broken-hearted salutatorian airs 13 years’ worthy of soiled laundry at his school’s graduation; an accessory struggles to make room for her homeless and self-absorbed mom whereas revisiting a scandalous highschool love affair; a up to date widower, with assistance from a smart teenager, schemes to rid his condo’s pond of Canada ducks. Clay compiles their tales, invasively offering context within the type of notes that lead consistently, one way or the other, again to Eli. in the back of Clay’s very likely insane, certainly doomed, and more and more suspect activity burns his wish to comprehend his brother’s loss of life, and the town that has outlined and ruined them both.
Full of brainy detours and irreverent asides, Exes is a robust research of grief, love, and our deeply held but ever-changing notions of home.
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