Book description
Big Ray's obesity and his mean temper define him, at least to his
family. When Big Ray dies, his son Daniel puts his feelings aside, for a
while. Years later, Daniel attempts to reckon with the enduring,
outsized memory of his father.
In this stunning novel a middle-aged man comes to terms with his
father's death - and with his life. Told in five hundred brief entries,
the complexity of this searing novel becomes more and more intricate as
the son's brave confession moves back and forth between the past and the
present, between the father's death and the father's life; between an
abusive childhood and an adult understanding.
Shot through with humour and insight that will resonate with anyone who
has a complicated parental relationship, Big Ray
is a staggering family story - at once brutal and tender, unusual and
unsettling. The best little novel you haven't heard about Michael Kimball
is the author of The Way the Family Got Away
, Dear Everybody
and How Much of Us There Was
, and his novels have been translated into a dozen languages. His work
has been featured on NPR s All Things Considered
and in the Guardian
, Vice
, Bomb
and New York Tyrant
. He has also created a couple of documentary films.
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