Friday 56 & #BookBeginnings: The Full Ridiculous / guiltless reading

Halfway through a ten-kilometer run, you have yet another premonition that you're hit by a car while jogging so you decide to outwit the fates by changing course, heading down Hastings Road instead of up it.

- p. 1

For Friday 56:

He slams on the breaks but it's too late.

- p. 56

About The Full Ridiculous by Mark Lamprell: A funny, compelling novel about love, family, and the precarious business of being a man. Michael O’Dell is hit by a car. When he doesn’t die, he is surprised and pleased. But he can’t seem to move from the crash position. In fact, the accident is just the first in a series of family crises: His wife Wendy is heroically supportive, but when his daughter Rosie punches out a vindictive schoolmate, all hell breaks loose. His son Declan is found with a stash of illicit drugs. A strange policeman starts harassing the family and ordinary mishaps take on a sinister desperation. To top it all off, Michael’s professional life starts to crumble. Mark Lamprell’s extraordinary debut examines the terrible truth: sometimes you can’t pull yourself together until you’ve completely fallen apart.