{"product_id":"life-events-paperback","title":"Life Events - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKarolina Waclawiak\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/i\u003e's 29 Books We Couldn't Put Down This Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Every page of this novel is a point of no return; once you've read Karolina Waclawiak's \u003ci\u003eLife Events\u003c\/i\u003e, you will never see life, death, grief, and healing the same way.\"--Saeed Jones, author of \u003ci\u003eHow We Fight for Our Lives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA woman at a crossroads learns the only way to reclaim her life is to help others die \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKarolina Waclawiak's breakout novel, \u003ci\u003eLife Events\u003c\/i\u003e, follows Evelyn, who, at thirty-seven, is on the verge of divorce and anxiously dreading the death of everyone she loves. She combats her existential crisis by avoiding her husband and aimlessly driving along the freeways of California looking for an escape--one that eventually comes when she discovers a collective of \"exit guides.\" Evelyn enrolls in their training course, where she learns to provide companionship and a final exit for terminally ill patients seeking a conscious departure. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe meets Daphne, a dying woman still full of life; Lawrence, an aging porn king; and Daniel, who seems too young to die and whom Evelyn falls for, despite knowing better, not to mention the exit guide code. Each client opens something new in Evelyn, allowing her a chance to access her own grief and confront the self-destructive ways she suppresses her pain. When Evelyn travels through the Southwest to an afterlife convention to further her death education, she must finally face her complicated relationship with her alcoholic father and reconcile her life choices. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSensitively observed and darkly funny, \u003ci\u003eLife Events\u003c\/i\u003e is a moving, enlivening story of the human condition: the doldrums of loneliness, the consuming regret of past mistakes, and the thrill, finally, of finding meaning--and love--where you least expect it.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKarolina Waclawiak\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eHow to Get into the Twin Palms \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Invaders\u003c\/i\u003e. Formerly an editor at \u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e, she is the executive editor of culture at \u003ci\u003eBuzzFeed News\u003c\/i\u003e. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Virginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Hazlitt\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewher\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.7 x 4.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 27, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47250588926201,"sku":"9781250798565","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/eFR3ckRhSEtEM2N5dlM5Zyt2cENqQT09.webp?v=1768664267","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/life-events-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}