Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories

By Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Book Overview

From the creator of the beloved and universally acclaimed television series BoJack Horseman, a fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love--the best and worst thing in the universe.

"Complex, daring, emotional, and unique, with notes of melancholic brilliance and an aftertaste of subtle elation: it is hard to describe the writing of Raphael Bob-Waksberg without sounding like Frasier discussing wine."
--B. J. Novak, author of One More Thing

Written with all the scathing dark humor that is a hallmark of BoJack Horseman, Raphael Bob-Waksberg's stories will make you laugh, weep, and shiver in uncomfortably delicious recognition. In "A Most Blessed and Auspicious Occasion," a young couple engaged to be married is forced to deal with interfering relatives dictating the appropriate number of ritual goat sacrifices for their wedding. "Missed Connection--m4w" is the tragicomic tale of a pair of lonely commuters eternally failing to make that longed-for contact. And in "More of the You That You Already Are," a struggling employee at a theme park of dead presidents finds that love can't be genetically modified.

Equally at home with the surreal and the painfully relatable (and both at once), Bob-Waksberg delivers a killer combination of humor, romance, whimsy, cultural commentary, and crushing emotional vulnerability.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 152473201X
• ISBN13: 9781524732011
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Heart breakingly incredible.

The stories are poetic and full, heart wrenching and destructive. They’ll have you giggling just a bit but not long until it tears you back down to reality and smashes your heart. Favorite book so far this year.

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I’m obsessed with his style and sense of humor. There’s so much more to be said, so order this book now!