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I See You've Called in Dead

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I See You've Called in Dead

By: John Kenney
Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
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The Office meets Six Feet Under meets About a Boy in this coming-of-middle-age tale about having a second chance to write your life’s story.

Bud Stanley is an obituary writer who is afraid to live. Yes, his wife recently left him for a “far more interesting” man. Yes, he goes on a particularly awful blind date with a woman who brings her ex. And yes, he has too many glasses of Scotch one night and proceeds to pen and publish his own obituary. The newspaper wants to fire him. But now the company’s system has him listed as dead. And the company can’t fire a dead person. The ensuing fallout forces him to realize that life may be actually worth living.

As Bud awaits his fate at work, his life hangs in the balance. Given another shot by his boss and encouraged by his best friend, Tim, a worldly and wise former art dealer, Bud starts to attend the wakes and funerals of strangers to learn how to live.

Thurber Prize-winner and NYTimes bestselling author John Kenney tells a funny, touching story about life and death, about the search for meaning, about finding and never letting go of the preciousness of life.

©2025 Zibby Publishing (P)2025 Zibby Publishing Coming of Age Dark Humour Friendship Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Satire Funny Tear-jerking

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As in the title, I loved this quirky and insightful novel. On the back of it, I bought a camper I couldn’t afford in order to live a little more!! Excellent read/listen.

Quirky and lovely

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Took me a while to get the structure of the book. But that could have been me just taking too long to get it.

You have one crack at it. (Life not the book, read that as many times as you like)

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Beautiful moving story of life, friendship and death. Beautifully written and read. Listened to it almost in one sitting

Touching funny and unputdownable

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