All the Wrong Places, by Philip Connors

At the age of twenty-three, Philip Connors was a young man on the make. He'd left behind the Minnesota pig farm on which he'd grown up and the brother with whom he'd never been especially close. He had a magazine job lined up in New York City and a future unfolding exactly as he’d hoped. Then one phone call out of the blue changed everything. All the Wrong Places is a searingly honest account of the aftermath of his brother's shocking death, exploring both the pathos and the unlikely humor of a life unmoored by loss. With ruthless clarity and a keen sense of the absurd, Connors slowly unmasks the truth about his brother and himself, to devastating effect. All the Wrong Places is a powerful look back at wayward years―and a redemptive story about finding one's rightful home in the world. Praise for All the Wrong Places “Find room on your bookshelf next to Wallace Stegner and Norman Maclean; Philip Connors is here to stay.”—Alexandra Fuller “As this sparklingly well-written memoir bore