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F*CK THIS MURDER

by numerous disasters over the course of a week, including food poisoning and poison ivy, aggressive yellowjackets, and the discovery of a severed human leg, among other things. In the midst of all this, Maggie—who once underwent fertility treatments—is nervous but hopeful that she may be pregnant, due to an ill\u002Dadvised hookup with her cheating, soon\u002Dto\u002Dbe\u002Dex\u002Dhusband, Lance. He tries to lure her back to Minnesota, as does a promotion\u002Doffering former employer. Maggie’s also anxious about seeing Alice, her former high school girlfriend, whom she betrayed by sleeping with Lance some 14 years ago. There’s also a blackmail plot, related to a tragic event that occurred during Maggie’s high school days. This colorful, spiraling whodunit effectively combines suspense with tongue\u002Din\u002Dcheek absurdity\u003B chapter titles include “Scooby Do or Die” and “What’s a Body Part Between Friends?,” and there are nods to both the 1997 horror film I Know What You Did Last Summer and the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Readers may find that keeping track of this book’s large squad of characters is challenging, but they’re a believable and attractively diverse bunch of potential suspects. Ultimately, though, this novel has a sweetness to it, with Maggie and her former antagonists coming together in common cause."

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Publisher:Of
Published:2024-01-01

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This raw, unfiltered chronicle documents a week of escalating personal catastrophes that begins with food poisoning and spirals into increasingly absurd miseries. The narrative voice captures the vis...

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This raw, unfiltered chronicle documents a week of escalating personal catastrophes that begins with food poisoning and spirals into increasingly absurd miseries. The narrative voice captures the visceral experience of bodily betrayal and systemic collapse with brutal honesty, transforming mundane suffering into something almost mythic in its proportions. Each day brings new layers of discomfort and indignity, building toward a breaking point that feels both inevitable and shocking.

What distinguishes this account is its unapologetic embrace of life's most undignified moments, refusing to sanitize the messy reality of being human when everything goes wrong. Readers who've experienced their own cascading bad luck will find grim solidarity in these pages, while those drawn to dark humor will appreciate the absurdist lens applied to genuine suffering. The cumulative effect is strangely cathartic—a reminder that sometimes survival means acknowledging just how thoroughly things can fall apart.

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