Avoid the Day: A New Nonfiction in Two Movements

by Jay Kirk

Book Overview

Avoid the Day truly seems to me to push nonfiction memoir as far as it can go without it collapsing into a singularity and I am at a loss for words. You are just going to have to read it. -Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk

A surreal, high-wire act of narrative nonfiction that redefines the genre, Avoid the Day is part detective story, part memoir, and part meditation on the meaning of life--all told with a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062356178
• ISBN13: 9780062356178
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.2" x 7.9"