A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A bittersweet and hilarious novel about a marriage whose decades-old routine is suddenly upended.
Walter Schmidt has lived his whole life within the narrow, “comfortable” confines of traditional gender roles: he has made it to retirement without learning how to fry an egg or use a vacuum cleaner. After all, he could always count on his wife, Barbara. But when one morning she can’t get up from bed anymore, everything changes.
With biting humor and great warmth, Alina Bronsky writes about how Walter, nearing the end of his life, is suddenly forced to reinvent himself as a caregiver and house-husband, and become the caring partner he never was in all his years with Barbara.
Little by little, Walter’s rough facade begins to crumble—and with it his old certainties about his life and family.
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Tim Mohr is an award-winning translator of authors such as Wolfgang Herrndorf, Charlotte Roche, and five books by Alina Bronsky. He has also collaborated on memoirs by musicians Gil Scott-Heron, Duff Mc Kagan of Guns N’ Roses, and Paul Stanley of KISS. His own writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, New York Magazine, and Inked, among other publications, and he spent several years as a staff editor at Playboy magazine, where he edited Hunter S. Thompson, John Dean, and Harvey Pekar, among others. He is the author of Burning Down the Haus, a history of political struggle and punk music in East Germany. Prior to starting his writing career he earned his living as a club DJ in Berlin.
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