In this addictive and highly original debut novel a fifteen-year-old boy dies mysteriously, leaving behind a secret ledger filled with his darkly comic confessions. Whether fantasizing about being a minority, breaking into his neighbors' homes, or gunning down an exotic bird, Henry Every's wayward quest for betterment sometimes bordered on the criminal. Alone now in their suburban house, his father pores over the ledger in a final attempt to connect with the boy he never really knew--and, more urgently, to figure out how he died. As Harlan Every learns the truth about his son's many...

A collection of candid and illuminating break-up stories resulting from three years of interviews by an Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker--"a wonderful and important piece of thinking and reporting" (Elizabeth Gilbert).

It all began as a self-help journey in the purest sense. A serial monogamist for more than two decades, Shapiro wanted to know why the honeymoon phase of his relationships never lasted until the actual honeymoon. Believing that you learn more from failure than from success, he spent the next three years criss-crossing the country with a tape recorder,...