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Amp'd from Ken Pisani, A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER Finalist, 2017 Thurber Prize for American Humor. Complete with painfully wry observations and delightfully caustic wit, this novel is a gritty exploration of what it's like to feel incomplete in the world. All five fingers up for this bitterly satisfying tale. Kirkus Reviews (starred) Aaron is not a man on a hero's journey. In the question of fight or flight, he'll choose flight every time. So when a car accident leaves him suddenly asymmetrical, his left arm amputated, looking on the bright side just isn't something he's equipped to do. Forced to return to his boyhood home to recuperate, Aaron is confronted with an aging father (a former Olympic biathlete turned hoarder), a mother whose chosen to live in a yurt with a fireman twelve years her junior, and a well-meaning sister whose insufferable husband proves love isn't just blind, but also painfully stupid. As Aaron tries to make the world around him disappear in a haze of Vicodin and medical marijuana, the only true joy in his life comes from daily ninety-second radio spots of fun science facts: the speed of falling raindrops, batteries made out of starfish, and sexual r

Who reads Amp'd: A Novel?

Author

Pisani, Ken

Publisher

St. Martin's Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781250085207

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humor

Rating

3.91 / 5 (269 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13