02877cam a2200385 4500 2676475550 TxAuBib 20260207120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781478983361 1478983361 3fe5c03e-3320-4f9b-b74a-8526f58f08e6 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2140167 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Rapp, Adam. Know Your Beholder [Libby Audiobook] : A Novel. Hachette Audio, 2015. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 233MB. relationships. divorced men. Agoraphobia. life crisis. Middle Age. depression. musicians. Divorce. Humor. Music. HTML:<b>From a Pulitzer Prize finalist comes a hilarious and heartbreaking novel about a musician climbing back from rock bottom.</b><br /> As winter deepens in snowbound Pollard, Illinois, thirty-something Francis Falbo is holed up in his attic apartment, recovering from a series of traumas: his mother's death, his beloved wife's desertion, and his once-ascendant rock band's irreconcilable break-up. Francis hasn't shaved in months, hasn't so much as changed out of his bathrobe-"the uniform of a Life in Default"-for nine days.<br /> Other than the agoraphobia that continues to hold him hostage, all he has left is his childhood home, whose remaining rooms he rents to a cast of eccentric tenants, including a pair of former circus performers whose daughter has gone missing. The tight-knit community has already survived a blizzard, but there is more danger in store for the citizens of Pollard before summer arrives. Francis is himself caught up in these troubles as he becomes increasingly entangled in the affairs of others, with results that are by turns disastrous, hysterical, and ultimately healing.<br /> Fusing consummate wit with the seriousness attending an adulthood gone awry, Rapp has written an uproarious and affecting novel about what we do and where we go when our lives have crumbled around us. Sharp-edged but tenderhearted, <i>Know Your Beholder</i> introduces us to one of the most lovably flawed characters in recent fiction, a man at last able to collect the jagged pieces of his dreams and begin anew, in both life and love. Seldom have our foibles and our efforts to persevere in spite of them been laid bare with such heart and hope.<br />. Humor (Fiction.) Literature. Fiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-02-06 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=3FE5C03E-3320-4F9B-B74A-8526F58F08E6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)