Michael Kimball has an uncanny ability to parse the most strange and painful parts of being a person into something most anyone could comprehend. Whether he’s writing about suicidal weathermen (as in his 2008 novel, Dear Everybody) or an elderly couple on the cusp of death (last year’s Us), Kimball’s unwaveringly wise balance of tone, humor, and beautifully tweaked simplicity allows him to create narratives that in lesser hands would seem morbid, or insane.

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