God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer

ONE OF THE MILLIONS’ MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2024 “This is an astonishingly accomplished novel…Just stunning.” – Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Magnificent” – Publisher’s Weekly, starred review  A stirring, unsparing novel about Black life in Philadelphia and the struggle to build intimate connections through the eyes of a struggling ex-Army grad student that “reads like a direct communication from the soul,” (Justin Torres) from the virtuoso author of Sink. After a deployment in the Iraq War dually defined by threat and interminable mundanity, Joseph Thomas is fighting to find his footing. Now a doctoral student at The University, and an EMS worker at the hospital in North Philly, 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 prison for the statutory rape of his then-teenage mother. Meanwhile, he and his best friend Ray, a