Aengus lives in a vibrant new city, among charming new friends, with a thriving career. He could never know that, just a scratch below the surface of his world, lurks emptiness and aimlessness. And when his wife is killed in a traffic accident, the thin veneer is suddenly and irredeemably ripped awa
Bad Things Happen
β Scribed by Bertin, Kris
- Publisher
- Biblioasis
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 130 KB
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The characters in Bad Things Happen -- professors, janitors, webcam models, small-time criminals -- are between things. Between jobs and marriages, states of sobriety, joy and anguish; between who they are and who they want to be. Kris Bertin's unforgettable debut introduces us to people at the tenuous moment before everything in their lives change, for better or worse.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
**"Witty, sophisticated, suspenseful and endless fun...the best first novel I've read this year." -*Washington Post* "A hypnotically readable novel, with...dialog worthy of Elmore Leonard."βDouglas Preston** The man who calls himself David Loogan is hoping to escape a violent past by l
This first collection by award-winning author Kelly Link takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and readers alike, on a voyage into new, strange, and wonderful territory. The girl detective must go to the underworld to solve the
This first collection by award-winning author Kelly Link takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and readers alike, on a voyage into new, strange, and wonderful territory. The girl detective must go to the underworld to solve the
**Some mistakes you have to live with . . .** One victim succumbs to an overdose. Another is brutally bludgeoned to death. Each, in turn, will pay. Because you never forget the friends you make in high schoolβor the enemies . . . **And others . . .** In the wake of her stepbrother Nick'
**Some mistakes you have to live with . . .** One victim succumbs to an overdose. Another is brutally bludgeoned to death. Each, in turn, will pay. Because you never forget the friends you make in high schoolβor the enemies . . . **And others . . .** In the wake of her stepbrother Nick'