God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer

Title: God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer Author: Joseph Earl Thomas Fiction: 1688613 ISBN: 9781538740996 Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Published: 2025 Binding: Paperback Language: English Section: Fiction | African American & Black | General Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: An "intoxicating, propulsive...utterly mesmerizing" novel about Black life in Philadelphia and the struggle to build intimate connections through the eyes of a struggling ex-Army grad student (Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!) After a deployment in the Iraq War, Joseph Thomas is fighting to find his footing. Now a doctoral student and EMS worker, he encounters round the clock friends and family from his past life and would-be future at his job, including contemporaries of his estranged father, a man he knows little about, serving time at Holmesburg pr