This book is about how hard it is to be a human being. This book is about living for a little while in a Walmart parking lot before you get back on your feet. This book is about being the best drunk driver in the world. It's about love, pain, fast food, Tylenol PM/Peptol Bismol suicide attempts, parenthood, divorce, ghosts, and everything else. It is written by the perspicacious Hillbilly Laureate, Scott McClanahan, and it's the kind of book that makes you want to dance while simultaneously making you feel bloodied and raw as if you just lost a bar fight.
— Joey
Each time I've read this book it has ruined my life. That is to say, it has ruined my life twice. That is to say, Scott McClanahan—writing about cheeseburgers, burning bibles, drinking gin, pretending to be spy, pretending to be a whole, complete person—has ruined my life twice. I promise you, no love story featuring cheeseburgers hits harder than this.
— Blake"McClanahan's prose is miasmic, dizzying, repetitive. A rushing river of words that reflects the chaos and humanity of the place from which he hails. He writes in an elliptical fever dream so contagious that slowing down is not an option. It would be like putting a doorstop in front of a speeding train. This is not a book you savor. It is one you inhale." -The New York Times
"Part memoir, part hillbilly history, part dream, McClanahan embraces humanity with all its grit, writing tenderly of criminals and outcasts, family and the blood ties that bind us."
--Interview Magazine
"McClanahan's prose is miasmic, dizzying, repetitive. A rushing river of words that reflects the chaos and humanity of the place from which he hails. McClanahan] aims to lasso the moon... He is not a writer of halfmeasures. The man has purpose. This is his symphony, every note designed to resonate, to linger."--New York Times Book Review
The Sarah Book is Scott McClanahan's continuation of the semi-autobiographical portrait he's been writing over the years about his life in West Virginia. This one is his portrait of love.
Scott McClanahan is the author of Hill William, Crapalachia, The Incantations of Daniel Johnson and many more.