Author(s): Matt Howard

Contemporary Fiction

Ethan Grout realizes it's his 27th birthday when he receives a card from the fitness center he recently quit along with the only job he had ever held. Having moved into a tiny room above a busy city bar, the buzz and lights of downstairs and the street soothing him to sleep, Ethan takes a new job, and another, and even another—collecting a life as he goes. Ethan Grout journeys through life, challenging himself to create his own gang of misfits when being alone just won't do any more. This bittersweet novel will strike familiar chords with anyone who has suffered through jobs that resemble glee clubs, cults, or blind dates, and who have tried to fit in even when it all just seems too hard.