Fiction. Tasked with writing a preface to a reissue of her late husband's long-out-of-print novel, Edna is unexpectedly asked to take care of a vacationing neighbor's pet rat, fish, and potted plants. Sitting at her typewriter day after day, Edna becomes lost in a Proustian marathon of introspection, mixing philosophical reflection and humor with minute accounts of her daily life. What unfolds, as if by accident, is the story of a marriage and a portrait of a mind pushed to its limits by the emptiness of the hours and the pain of memory. "Sam Savage has become one of America's funniest, cleverest, and most vital writers of fiction"—Michael Schaub, Bookslut.

Author City: MADISON, WI USA

Sam Savage is the author of Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife, THE CRY OF THE SLOTH, and GLASS. A finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, Savage holds a PhD in philosophy from Yale University and resides in Madison, Wisconsin.

Reviews and Other Links
Kirkus Reviews
Publishers Weekly
W. S. Lyon @ BookPage
excerpt @ The Collagist
Carolyn Kellogg @ Los Angeles Times