This Book Will Save Your Life

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Richard Novak is a modern-day Everyman a middle-aged divorcé trading stocks out of his home. He has done such a good job getting his life under control that he needs no one--except his trainer nutritionist and housekeeper. He is functionally dead and doesn't even notice until two incidents--an attack of intense pain that lands him in the emergency room and the discovery of an expanding sinkhole outside his house--conspire to hurl him back into the world. On his way home from the hospital Richard forms the first of many new relationships: He meets Anhil the doughnut shop owner an immigrant who dreams big. He finds a weeping housewife in the produce section of the supermarket helps save a horse that has fallen into the sinkhole daringly rescues a woman from the trunk of her kidnapper's car and after the sinkhole claims his house and he has to relocate to a Malibu rental he befriends a reluctant counterculture icon. In the end Richard is also brought back in closer touch with his family--his aging parents his brilliant brother the beloved ex-wife whom he still desires and finally before the story's breathtaking finale with his estranged son Ben. --> Genre: Literary Fiction Literary Works