The Reason You're Alive A Novel

Matthew Quick

eBook - 2024

This novel from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook follows a Vietnam vet pursuing his nemesis from the war. After sixty-eight-year-old David Granger crashes his BMW, medical tests reveal a brain tumor that he readily attributes to his wartime Agent Orange exposure. He wakes up from surgery repeating the name of a Native American soldier whom he was once ordered to discipline. David decides to return something precious he long ago stole from the man he now calls Clayton Fire Bear. It may be the only way to find closure in a world increasingly at odds with the one he served to protect—and help him finally recover from his wife's untimely demise. As David confronts his past to salvage his present, a p...oignant portrait emerges: that of an opinionated and good-hearted American patriot fighting like hell to stay true to his red, white, and blue heart, even as the country he loves rapidly changes in ways he doesn't always like or understand. Hanging in... more