"”Just give me one more day,” Monk says, and “Early Sobrieties”is such a wise and piercing book that we believe him."
-Charlie Lee, The New York Times Book Review"Michael Deagler is the real deal."
-Percival Everett, 2023 Windham Campbell Prize recipient and author of Dr. NoMonk’s haphazard pilgrimage leads him through a city in flux: growing, gentrifying, haunted by its history and its unrealized potential. Everyone he knew from college seems to be doing better than him-and most of them aren’t even doing that well. His run-ins with former classmates, estranged drinking buddies, and prospective lovers challenge his version of events past and present, revealing that recovery is not the happy ending he’d expected, only a fraught next chapter.
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