Through the controversial, wrenching, and wildly honest Vietnam vet David Granger, Matthew Quick offers a no-nonsense but ultimately hopeful view of America's polarized psyche. By turns irascible and hilarious, insightful and inconvenient, David is a complex, wounded, honorable, and ultimately loving man.The Reason You're Alive examines how the secrets and debts we carry from our past define us.
"The author of The Silver Linings Playbook delivers another engaging and screen-ready dramedy about an irascible misfit on a mission for closure." Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Quick's prose is sharp and cutting . . . The Reason You're Alive is a compact powerhouse of a novel. Though brief, it's subversive, unexpected, and utterly compelling Booklist (Starred Review)

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