“Robert McKean has a wonderful sense of place equalled only by his great gift for creating characters it’s impossible not to care about. Peter Sanguedolce, a retired sewer pipe salesman, eats too much, loves his daughter too much and almost always acts in his own worst interests. In McKean’s hands, we would follow him anywhere….a beautifully written and deeply satisfying novel.”

—MARGOT LIVESEY, author of The Boy in The Field

  "An amusing, zigzagging adventure starring an unlikely hero..."

—KIRKUS REVIEWS

  “… a wise and scathingly funny story about the inevitability of loss and the potential for rediscovered joy. It’s a bleak, wintery, rust-belt landscape that the novel’s protagonist, Peter Sanguedolce, inhabits, and Peter has known his share of sorrow. His career, his neighborhood, his health, his marriage, and even custody of his beloved daughter have slowly slipped away from him, but as he struggles to cope with a world that seems heartless, Peter not only endures but also finds new ways forward, and his triumph   becomes ours.”

—ROBIN GREENE, author of Augustus: Narrative of a Slave Woman and The Shelf Life of Fire

This title works as a stand-alone.