March 17th, 2011 / 12:21 pm
 Author Spotlight

Michael Kimball’s Us [Tyrant Books, 2011]

Michael Kimball’s truly crushing second novel, released in the UK in 2005, will finally see its U.S. release on May 10 of this year from Tyrant Books. Preorders have begun. Below, a trailer for the book based on a single sentence, created by Luca Dipierro.

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3 Comments

  1. March 17th, 2011 / 6:06 pm Melissa Broder—

      This book moved me for sure. I thought it was neat how the narration (He _____. He _____. ) was so reportage yet also evoked melancholy. Like, it’s an event-based text but love accumulates.

      Kimball is really patient with the dying and the death. I felt like he captures the weirdness of illness; how when someone in your life is ill, you suddenly have a whole new language (symptom-words & med-words that are not part of the everyday lexicon, but you now say more often than you say “hello” or “milk”). Pills, symptoms, doctors & sick foods become characters in and of themselves, because they are so present.

      I also loved his use of clocks and basic household technologies; the trying to rewind time.

      We’re all gonna die. Good book.

  2. March 17th, 2011 / 6:06 pm Melissa Broder—

      This book moved me for sure. I thought it was neat how the narration (He _____. He _____. ) was so reportage yet also evoked melancholy. Like, it’s an event-based text but love accumulates.

      Kimball is really patient with the dying and the death. I felt like he captures the weirdness of illness; how when someone in your life is ill, you suddenly have a whole new language (symptom-words & med-words that are not part of the everyday lexicon, but you now say more often than you say “hello” or “milk”). Pills, symptoms, doctors & sick foods become characters in and of themselves, because they are so present.

      I also loved his use of clocks and basic household technologies; the trying to rewind time.

      We’re all gonna die. Good book.

  3. March 17th, 2011 / 7:11 pm Josephriippi—

      I am very, very excited about this. Mostly because I use those “symptom-words” and “med-words” in my day-to-day job writing ads for doctors and rarely attribute to actual literature. This might be a kind of bridge.