The Reason You're AliveThe New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook offers a timely novel featuring his most fascinating character yet, a Vietnam vet embarking on a quixotic crusade to track down his nemesis from the war. After sixty eight year old David Granger crashes his BMW, medical tests reveal a brain tumor that he readily attributes to his wartime Agent Orange exposure. He wakes up from surgery repeating a name no one in his civilian life has

Tony Fiore was everything her Upper East Side parents wanted Elaine to avoid—the Italian-American boy from Brooklyn was hardly an ideal match for their perfect socialite daughter

Clara takes a new identity—Sara Livingston

And then there’s chocolatier Trevor March

Her poems probe the authority of language and logic

seemingly good kids have joined the Islamic State

failed projects

paid off the Gestapo

When Kathryn returns home

John Smith possesses a special gift that seems more like a curse: he can access other people’s thoughts

they later return to the outskirts of his orchard to see the man who gave them no chase

made strange by the darkness

The last thing he has time for is some privileged rich girl preaching the sanctity of the political process