God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer - A Novel

ONE OF THE MILLIONS’ MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2024
 
“This is an astonishingly accomplished novel…Just stunning.” – Kirkus Reviews, starred review
 
“Magnificent” – Publisher’s Weekly, starred review 
 
A stirring, unsparing novel about Black life in Philadelphia and the struggle to build intimate connections through the eyes of a struggling ex-Army grad student that “reads like a direct communication from the soul,” (Justin Torres) from the virtuoso author of Sink. 

After a deployment in the Iraq War dually defined by threat and interminable mundanity, Joseph Thomas is fighting to find his footing. Now a doctoral student at The University, and an EMS worker at the hospital in North Philly, he encounters round the clock friends and family from his past life and would-be future at his job, includin