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Big Ray, September 2012
Hardcover / e-Book

BIG RAY
By: Michael Kimball

Bloomsbury
September 2012
On Sale: September 18, 2012
192 pages
ISBN: 1608198545
EAN: 9781608198542
Kindle: B008RYD328
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction Family Life

Big Ray’s temper and obesity define him. When Big Ray dies, his son feels mostly relief, dismissing his other emotions. Yet years later, the adult son must reckon with the outsized presence of his father’s memory. This stunning novel, narrated in more than five hundred brief entries, moves between past and present, between his father’s death and his life, between an abusive childhood and an adult understanding. Shot through with humor and insight that will resonate with anyone who has experienced a complicated parental relationship, Big Ray is a staggering family story— at once brutal and tender, sickening and beautiful.