Assisted Living

Gary Lutz’s new fictions dig deeper into the psyche of men and women grappling with making sense of their aging bodies and frantic but tired hearts, often living in towns where “all roads led to the one road that wasn’t going where you wanted to go.” Full of propulsive sentences and a humor made darker by his characters’ sharp bitterness, Assisted Living is another dose of scathing sadness and comedy.

“Lutz is a master prose stylist.” —Bookforum

“Gary Lutz is a revolutionary force in American writing, reinventing prose fiction with sentences that always deliver on their extravagant promises.” –Sam Lipsyte

“Gary Lutz is a master–living proof that . . . true originality is still an American possibility.” –George Saunders

Part of the Future Tense Scout Books series, chapbooks printed by the wonderful people at Scout Books, Portland, Oregon.