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The Sarah Book
The Sarah Book | Scott McClanahan
14 posts | 15 read | 24 to read
McClanahan is the only real successor we have to Breece D'J Pancake. Old-fashioned storytelling from modern Appalachia.
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youneverarrived
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Sad, funny, real & completely honest.

It‘s a book about divorce & love filtered with good memories and bad ones and all the things that make and break a relationship. I just want to listen to it all over again. So, so good!

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youneverarrived
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“So we stood and stared at one another and it was quiet and our faces were saying sad things.”

This book is amazing! It‘s reminding me of Bukowski in a way.

There‘s an excerpt here http://magazine.nytyrant.com/excerpt-sarah-book/

The #audio is read by the author and it genuinely feels like he‘s just chatting away about his life and Sarah. I think it‘s semi-autobiographical but it‘s marked as fiction so not entirely sure. So honest and raw.

Cathythoughts Amazing quote ❤️ 7y
Cathythoughts I stacked this .... but I think I will get the audible... sounds good that it‘s read by the author 7y
youneverarrived @Cathythoughts the audible is so good 👌 I think it‘s less than 6 hours so not a long listen either. 7y
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Jas16
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This was a short but rough story about the end and beginning of a marriage. It is brutal in its covering of every emotion and in depicting how loss and desperation can make a person pretty unlikeable. My first book by the author but I will definitely read others.

emilyhaldi This has been on my radar for a while! Sounds good. 7y
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Blaire
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This is a raw and intimate portrait of falling in love, falling apart, divorce, and renewal in Beckley, wv. In alternating short chapters we get to see the relationship at its beginning and then when it is coming apart. Scott‘s desperation is depicted so vividly as he talks about depression, loneliness, alcoholism and eventually some hope. #readharder #micropress #100milesofwhereilive #bookriot

Kaye Oh my gosh. I love Scott McClanahan ! 7y
Blaire @Kaye me too! Crapalachia blew me away. 7y
Kaye Have you heard it in audio? I‘ve listened to that too many times to count. It‘s so hard to describe. He is funny but yet his life just breaks your heart. 7y
Blaire @Kaye I‘ll check it out. I‘ve found his writing very moving. 7y
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ReadingEnvy
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Blaire
The Sarah Book | Scott McClanahan
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Trying to #deweysreadathon with two kids and an activity filled day hasn‘t worked out so well. But I did manage over 100 pages of Homegoing and hit up my favorite local bookstore and picked out some birthday presents for myself. #bookhaul #micropress #tyrantbooks

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shutupsmalls
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Liberty
The Sarah Book | Scott McClanahan
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Today's Print Bookstore haul! 📚❤️😊 #catsoflitsy

Michael_Gee Your cat is not happy about that! She is so beautiful. 7y
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Karen Loved The Sarah Book. 7y
JenReadsAlot 😻😻 7y
CoffeeCatsBooks Lol! 😻 7y
MrBook 😹😹😻😻 7y
Schlinkles I loved Dark Town, so glad he's making it a series. 7y
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BooksForEmpathy
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"There is only one thing I know about life. If you live long enough you start losing things. Things get stolen from you. First you lose your youth, then your parents, then you lose your friends, and finally, you end up losing yourself."

I inhaled this book flying home yesterday. It will be one of my favorites of the year.

Scott McClanahan was unknown to me. Everything has changed. Divorce is so well-told and gutting. Experience this book.

minkyb Intrigued! 7y
Blaire If you liked this one, I‘d recommend crapalachia. I was blown away by it. 7y
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Karen
The Sarah Book | Scott McClanahan
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Current read. I am halfway through and so far it is fantastic. It will be one of my favs of 2017. A powerful novel about love, heartbreak and raw emotion.

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sarahu
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Indie #Bookhaul video. This book= narcissism; yeah, cuz I'm Sarah. Not THE Sarah, but... #indiebooks https://youtu.be/VHhr7VdZHEA #booktube

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ReadingEnvy
The Sarah Book | Scott McClanahan
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#bookmail from Malaprops! I love this author and I'm looking forward to this. It will probably be my first read of @24in48

saresmoore My dad is visiting Malaprop's as we speak! 7y
ReadingEnvy @saresmoore ah man! I almost went there today! 7y
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BethW
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I am reading based on an interview with the author. He lives in West Virginia and grew up in a world so devoid of art, when he went to write he was too ignorant not to make certain mistakes. Thank god.His writing is raw, rough, painful, darkly comic and completely great. This is what I hoped would happen after the Fall of Publishing...an Indy house publishes a fast ball out of nowhere that is brutally honest and great.

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RiotMom
The Sarah Book | Scott McClanahan
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#TBRtemptation just scrolled past this on instagram... maybe need to take a stroll by @chopsueybooks and pick up a copy!